| MARAT | David's subject picking up some fruit, a rambutan (5) |
| LONGAN | From Cantonese for "dragon's eye", an exotic fruit similar to a lychee or a rambutan when peeled (6) |
| BRAG | Boast when picking up some of the garbage (4) |
| OWL | Wise figure picking up some philosophical work |
| SMELLING | Picking up some perfume? |
| FRUIT | Rambutan or guava |
| FLUSH | A startled flock of rising or springing game birds; a fresh bloom of flowers, foliage or fruit; a suffusion of a reddish or rosy colour; or, a hand of poker cards, all of the same suit (5) |
| STONE | The kernel of an apricot, cherry, peach, plum or other drupe fruit; a gem such as a diamond; or, a rock as a weight prior to its standardisation as an imperial unit of 14lbs (5) |
| TANGO | Codeword following Sierra; a sultry dance of seduction, originally of despair; or, alluding to a clementine-like fruit, a deep shade of orange (5) |
| GUAVA | Fruit, a volume taking month to come up (5) |
| LEMON | A fruit; a worthless item |
| PEARS | Fruit a person can get on with (5) |
| EATER | Fruit a tree reproduced (5) |
| ALOFT | Endless bitter fruit. A short distance on high (5) |
| GOURD | Fruit a madman may be out of! (5) |
| TABOO | Forbidden fruit a book covers (5) |
| MELON | Fruit a camel once swallowed? (5) |
| ACORN | Fruit's a pain for the walker (5) |
| LOTUS | Fantastic fruit, a good deal from Florida, say |
| OLIVE | Tree an its oily fruit, a traditional and much-valued product in Mallorca |
