| LAMMAS | First fruits of the harvest (Scot) |
| SWAZILAND | Incwala is a six-day festival in the country of Eswatini to celebrate the tasting of the season's first fruits, cleansing, renewal, and kingship. How was Eswatini previously known? |
| SAMHAIN | Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter |
| DEMETER | Greek goddess of the harvest and fertility of the land (7) |
| LASTSTRAW | The end of the harvest proved back-breaking |
| FIG | One of the first fruits cultivated by humans |
| INGATHER | Collect the fruits of the earth for the harvest (8) |
| OPS | Roman goddess of the harvest |
| CERES | Roman goddess of the harvest |
| SHARECROP | Work land for a portion of the harvest |
| GLEANINGS | Last of the harvest |
| STARVE | Go hungry when most of the harvest is ruined (6) |
| CROP | Had to cut short part of the harvest (4) |
| ANNAT | The first-fruits produced by an ant (5) |
| ANNATES | A girl eats up the first fruits (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) |
| CHEESE | One of the wheel-like "fruits" of the marsh-mallow plant; Cheddar, Cheshire, Dorset Blue Vinny or other such pressed turophile's delight; a lemony conserve, also called curd; or, the proverbial antith |
| MIGRAINOUS | Creature of the harvest endlessly eating one crop, such a headache (10) |
| DATES | In C4 reality show with Fred Sirieix, the first fruits from a palm (5) |
| EARNEST | Word for money paid in advance as a deposit or guarantee, hence a pledge, assurance or foretaste of what is to come; or, first-fruits (7) |
