| JAM | An often homemade food prepared from seasonal gluts of fruit simmered in sugar in a preserving pan, traditionally applied to scones, bread or Victoria sandwiches (3) |
| PRESERVE | General name for an often homemade food prepared from fruit or vegetables such as jam, jelly, marmalade, lemon curd or chutney (8) |
| CHUTNEY | Condiment of Indian origin often made from mangoes, tomatoes, chillies or seasonal gluts of apples, plums, marrows or gooseberries with ginger (7) |
| COMPOTE | Seasonal berries/fruit simmered in spiced sugar syrup as a warm or chilled breakfast with Greek yoghurt or a pudding with whipped ricotta (7) |
| EMULSIFIED | Sue with midlife crisis found it had been treated with a preserving agent (10) |
| FORMALDEHYDE | A preserving liquid (12) |
| TRAINERS | Cordons, espaliers, trees, bushes or vines, but yielding bounties of Bramleys, crops of Conferences, gluts of grapes, harvests of honeydews or rich pickings of pippins; orchardists growing nature's ri |
| ROSE | With petals distilled to make facial toner and fruits/hips simmered in sugar to make syrup, a flower in the apple family traditionally symbolising love (4) |
| LEEK | Foreign bread encloses latest of homemade food (4) |
| INKPAD | Tin of pigment used with rubber stamps for hand-printing ex libris on bookplates, monograms/addresses on stationery or homemade food labels (3,3) |
| ALMOND | Blanched, candied, flaked, ground, sugared, reflected in the amygdala of the brain and often called a nut, a dry fruit or drupe of a peach-related rosaceous tree that often yields a seasonal glut (6) |
| BLACKBERRY | Any one of a glut of hedgerow drupels foraged, gathered, gleaned or harvested in the seasonal fingertip-staining rural activity of brambling; or, a digital fruit, aka smartphone, with a qwerty core an |
| MARROWS | Oversized courgettes whose seasonal gluts are typically stuffed, baked with breadcrumbs, used in chutneys, curried or grated into cake mixtures (7) |
| CHITTERLINGS | Food prepared from the small intestines of a pig (12) |
| ADORABLE | Last of sugar in a possible sweet (8) |
| BRAN | Food prepared from husks of cereal grains (4) |
| YOGHURT | A semi-solid food prepared from milk fermented by added bacteria (7) |
| CHEESE | Food prepared from pressed curds of milk (6) |
| YOGURT | Custard-like food prepared from milk that has been curdled by bacteria (6) |
| EXCESS | Part of an insurance claim to be paid by the policy holder; or, another word for a glut of something (6) |
