| MEDLAR | Common name for a fruit c Mespilus germanico (6) |
| CITRUS | General name for a fruit such as a Seville orange, bergamot or Sorrento lemon, used for marmalade, Earl Grey, neroli or limoncello, for example (6) |
| BANDIT | One-armed ____, another name for a fruit machine in gambling (6) |
| PORPORA | Nicola ___, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta (7) |
| PAPAYA | Father will provide money for a fruit (6) |
| JAMJAR | Glass container for a fruit preserve (3,3) |
| CERISE | Type of red named for a fruit |
| VOODOO | Common name for a folk religion of Haitian origin whose rituals are led by a houngan (priest) or mambo (priestess) (6) |
| SWITCH | Common name for a species of Panicum - exchange lawn material? (6,5) |
| COWRIE | Common name for a large sea snail of the Cypraeidae family (6) |
| BAOBAB | Common name for a tropical tree of the adansonia genus (6) |
| SAPPER | Common name for a Royal Engineer (6) |
| MANTLE | Lady's -; common name for a herbaceous perennial plant in the family that includes rose, meadowsweet, peach and quince, Alchemilla mollis (6) |
| OYSTER | Common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs (6) |
| ROBERT | Common name for a boy |
| MAYBUG | Common name for a cockchafer |
| SEAPIG | Common name for a deep-ocean cucumber |
| REDHOT | Common name for a plant of the kniphofia genus, - - - poker (3,3) |
| MADCOW | Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: common name for a disease humans can get from eating infected beef (3,3) |
| SNOWY | Amelanchier, common name the '___ mespilus' (5) |
