| PLUME | Becomes feather or fruit at this point (5) |
| PLUCK | A short sharp pull of an eyebrow, fowl's feather or fruit from a tree; a strum or twang of a musical string; or, the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, hence courage, guts, heart or spirit (5) |
| PLUMAGE | Feathers or fruit seen on time (7) |
| QUILL | Large feather, or porcupine spine (5) |
| SHAFT | Part of golf club, feather or sunlight (5) |
| DATES | The fruit at times of an affectionate relationship (5) |
| FIGHT | Scrap of fruit at half time (5) |
| PEACH | Nice fruit at a penny a time (5) |
| PLUMB | Sound fruit at front of barrow |
| LEMON | Fruit at the bar |
| PINNA | Feather or wing |
| SWING | Bing Crosby sang, "But if you don't care a feather or a fig, You may grow up to be a pig," in the Os |
| MOULT | Shed feathers or hair (5) |
| TUFTS | Small bunches of feathers or hair (5) |
| PUMPS | Grills fruits at Halloween, excluding family |
| SINGE | Burn off feathers or hair |
| CHUCKBERRY | Throw fruit at singer (5,5) |
| RACHIS | An axis or shaft of a feather; or, the spine or vertebral column (6) |
| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| VANE | Another word for a weathercock; a vexillum of a feather; or. a sight on a quadrant or azimuth compass (4) |
