| CASSEROLED | Cooked sloes and cedar nuts (10) |
| DAMSONS | Abundant in late September and used for jam, gin, wine and cobbler, fruits related to gages, wild bullaces, plums (Dittisham and Victoria), sloes and mirabelles (7) |
| BLACKTHORN | Tree bearing sloes (10) |
| PENOLOGIST | Top sloe gin mixed for expert in the jug |
| IOWA | Home to Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids |
| TREES | ash, birch and cedar |
| ODORS | Pine and cedar |
| SOFTWOODS | Pine and cedar |
| DRUPES | From "olives", a botanical word for the aforesaid stone fruits and others including apricots, cherries, damsons, dates, elderberries, peaches, plums and sloes (6) |
| HEDGEROW | Countryside's botanical border whose seasonal fruits may include crab apples, brambles, sloes, rosehips, bullaces, elderberries, juniper and wild cherry or gean (8) |
| HAWS | From the Old English meaning "hedge", fruits of the tree Crataegus that form part of the countryside's seasonal bounty with brambles, rosehips, elderberries and sloes (4) |
| SLOEGIN | Gin flavoured with sloes (4,3) |
| SOLES | Loses (anag.); sloes (anag.) (5) |
| LOOSEST | The most slack of sloes to be marinated (7) |
| PRUNELLE | Green French liqueur made from sloes (8) |
| LOESS | SLOES |
| PLUM | Fruit related to the damson, greengage, mirabelle and sloe (4) |
| PRUNUS | Genus of trees including plum, cherry, almond and sloe (6) |
| BULLACE | Wild plum related to damson and sloe (7) |
| CONSIGLIERE | Mafia adviser distributed sloe gin and rice (11) |
