| HEDGEROW | Countryside's botanical border whose seasonal fruits may include crab apples, brambles, sloes, rosehips, bullaces, elderberries, juniper and wild cherry or gean (8) |
| CRUSTACEANS | Mainly aquatic arthropods with hard shells that include crabs, lobsters and shrimps (11) |
| STANNARD | Artist of the Norwich School whose seasonal paintings include Christmas Table, Still Life with Holly and Mistletoe, Basket of Oranges and Christmas Fruit and Nuts (8) |
| MARROWS | Oversized courgettes whose seasonal gluts are typically stuffed, baked with breadcrumbs, used in chutneys, curried or grated into cake mixtures (7) |
| 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) |
| BLACKTHORN | The shrub Prunus spinosa, whose fruits are called sloes (10) |
| CRUMBLE | Mixture of plain flour, butter and sugar as a topping for baked seasonal fruits such as Bramley apples, blackberries or rhubarb (7) |
| COTTIAN | ? Alps, mountain range on the France-Italy border whose highest peak is Monte Viso |
| PECTIN | From the Greek for "congealed", a substance present in citruses, crab-apples, currants, gooseberries, quinces, plums, unripe blackberries and other fruits, traditionally used for setting jams and jell |
| DRUPES | From "olives", a botanical word for the aforesaid stone fruits and others including apricots, cherries, damsons, dates, elderberries, peaches, plums and sloes (6) |
| SUMMERPUDDING | Dish of soft seasonal fruits in bread |
| COMPOTE | Seasonal fruits or berries simmered in sugar, or a type of stemmed dish in which it is traditionally served (7) |
| STURMER | Village in Essex near the Suffolk border whose name was given to a heritage cultivar of pippin apple (7) |
| HEDGES | Botanical borders forming part of the British countryside, French bocage or topiarian mazes (6) |
| HAWICK | Town in the Scottish Borders whose rugby team plays at Mansfield Park (6) |
| SOUR | Like crab apples |
| ELDER | Woodland tree or shrub with berries used for jam, country wine, pontack sauce and a kind of hedgerow ketchup with crab apples, blackberries and haws, genus Sambucus (5) |
| TART | Like crab apples |
| CHARLOTTE | A classic pudding of stewed apples or other seasonal fruit baked in a bread-and-butter or sponge cake casing; or, the forename of the Bronte sister who penned Jane Eyre (9) |
| VERJUICE | Often prepared by a vigneron, the tart green extract of unripe crab-apples, grapes or other fruit, used as a source of sourness in medieval kitchens and in cookery today (8) |
