| KERNEL | Edible part of a nut; or, a vital or central part of something such as a computer's core (6) |
| DRAGEE | A sweet consisting of a nut or fruit coated with a hard sugar icing (6) |
| TARTUFO | Italian for "truffle", thus for a white example of said earth-nut; or, a bombe of chocolate-coated ice cream, reminiscent of such a delicacy (7) |
| AME | French word for "soul", as in a person or a vital part of a violin (3) |
| DISCS | Tarot suits more commonly known as coins; or, central parts of composite flowers including daisies, |
| CRUX | A vital or decisive stage, point, etc (4) |
| CORE | The central part of something |
| HUSK | Dry outer covering of a nut or seed (4) |
| AXIS | Main stem or central part about which plant organs are arranged (4) |
| WIPES | Erases, as a computer's memory |
| ERASE | Clear, as a computer's memory |
| COMFIT | A sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed (6) |
| BRAZIL | Largest country in South America; or, a variety of nut or seed that is often coated in chocolate or used to flavour brownies (6) |
| HULLED | Removed the outer part of a nut |
| GIBLET | An edible part of a fowl? |
| BREAST | Edible part of a chicken |
| OVIEDO | City in NW Spain or central Florida |
| FRUIT | From "enjoyment of harvest", a word for an acorn, berry, drupe, grain, hesperidium, nut, pome or other edible part of a plant, whose other Latin sense, "profit, value", is the source of a word meaning |
| AMANDINE | A protein found in bitter or sweet oval kernels used to make amaretti; a candle, cosmetic cream, garnish or Romanian chocolate cake prepared in some way from said nuts; or, a French "pomme de terre" w |
| MEAT | Edible part of a nut |
