| MEDLARS | Apple-like fruits of Mespilus, best eaten when decaying (7) |
| MEDLAR | Common name for the fruit of Mespilus germanica (6) |
| DAMSONS | The blue-black edible plum-like fruits of a small rosaceous tree (7) |
| CHEESE | One of the wheel-like "fruits" of the marsh-mallow plant; Cheddar, Cheshire, Dorset Blue Vinny or other such pressed turophile's delight; a lemony conserve, also called curd; or, the proverbial antith |
| ARGANOIL | Yellow nutty-flavoured substance extracted from the olive-like fruits of a thorny evergreen tree native to Morocco (5,3) |
| OYSTERS | Molluscs in season during the "months" when they are best eaten (7) |
| CASSATA | It's eaten when seated in state (7) |
| POUSSIN | Chicken reared to be eaten when young and tender (7) |
| REVENGE | Your own back for a dish best eaten cold? |
| ROSEHIP | Berry-like fruit of a wild flowering plant (7) |
| CARAWAY | Seed-like fruit of a plant in the parsley family, used to flavour foods including rye bread, cheese, sauerkraut, orange cake and Gruyere tart (7) |
| CONKERS | Nut-like fruits or seeds of the horse chestnut used in a traditional playground game of the same name that formerly used snail shells (7) |
| ALMONDS | The edible kernels of the peach-like fruits (7) |
| ARBUTUS | Shrub with flaking bark and strawberry-like fruits (7) |
| EPHEDRA | ___ gerardiana is an evergreen shrub with fibrous stalks and red berry-like fruits in autumn (7) |
| POMELOS | Grapefruit-like fruits |
| PINKLADY | A Chaenomeles x superba with apple-like fruit - pa kindly moved (4,4) |
| HAW | From Old English for "hedge", word for any one of the miniature red apple-like pomes of the purportedly sacred "bread-and-cheese"-bearing fairy tee, mayflower or quickthorn; or, an utterance marking h |
| ELEPHANTINE | Large helping mostly eaten when out of sorts? (11) |
| PENANG | Curry eaten when empty, to plug that feeling of hunger (6) |
