| ARIL | Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover for a seed |
| ENAMELED | Covered with or as if with a glossy and usually brightly colored coating. |
| TESTA | Back of court seat originally providing cover for a seed |
| VIABLE | Term for a seed that is able to germinate, or for a project that is projected to be a success (6) |
| PELOTA | Game that has a lot in it for a seed (6) |
| DIBBLE | Make a hole for a seed (6) |
| DIB | Make a small hole, for a seed or seedling perhaps (3) |
| DRUPE | Fleshy and fruity, may upset a prude (5) |
| TREEFROG | A small, usually brightly coloured arboreal amphibian (4,4) |
| PETAL | Part of the corolla of a flower, usually brightly coloured (5) |
| LEGUME | Word for a seed or pulse such as a borlotti bean, chickpea, peanut or Puy lentil; or, the plant from which each of the aforesaid derive (6) |
| BYE | Tournament pass for a seed |
| POPPYHEAD | After drink, he'd pay recklessly for a seed capsule |
| SUGARSNAP | Love game for a seed |
| ALOE | South African plant of the lily family with fleshy and spiny along the edges, the juice of which is used as a bitter laxative |
| CACTI | Tunas - thick, fleshy and prickly ones (5) |
| WATTLE | Loose pendulous fold of skin, usually brightly- coloured, on the neck or throat of certain birds and lizards (6) |
| BUTTERFLY | Insect with large, usually brightly coloured, wings (9) |
| SEASLUG | Shell-less marine gastropod mollusc that is usually brightly coloured (3,4) |
| PARROT | Usually brightly coloured zygodactyl tropical bird (6) |
