| RIPENS | Changes from green to red like a fruit |
| TOMATO | It usually changes from green to red (6) |
| RIPEN | Change from green to red, perhaps (5) |
| REDYE | Change from green to yellow to red? |
| BANANASKIN | Peel that changes from green to yellow |
| TURNINGLEAF | Unfaltering, a ___ ___ will go in autumn from green to red, orange and yellow tints! (7,4) |
| RIPENED | Changed from green to red, maybe |
| MATURED | Turned from green to red, perhaps |
| ALERTS | They might range from green to red |
| RARE | Very red, like a blue moon? (4) |
| ROSY | Red like a certain flower |
| SCARLET | Red, like a face flushed with anger (7) |
| ALEXANDRITE | A variety of chrysoberyl that changes from green in daylight to red in artificial light (11) |
| ARP | He said "Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant" |
| PEACHY | It's excellent to be like a fruit (6) |
| PEARDROP | A boiled sweet shaped like a fruit (4,4) |
| RIPE | Like a fruit ready to be eaten |
| AIRQUALITYINDEX | It corresponds to a six-color scale ranging from green to maroon |
| REDYES | Turns from green to amber to red, say |
| GARNET | From "cochineal" or "pomegranate", a gemstone coloured red, like the aforesaid dye or the said fruit's aril (6) |