| PEACH | From the Latin meaning "Persian apple", a rosaceous drupe resembling a fuzzy nectarine that is one of the fruits whose stone is ground to prepare persipan (5) |
| ALMOND | Influenced by medieval Latin for "loveable", a kernel with an oval shape resembled by the brain's emotional processing centre, or "amygdala"; or, a creamy pale-brown or pistachio colour of such a rosa |
| PEACHBLOOM | A powdery coating on a "Persian apple"; a similar appearance on pottery, evocative of said ripening fruit; or, its pinkish-blush colour (5-5) |
| BLOSSOM | A flower or mass of flowers preceding the fruit of a rosaceous tree, such as the almond, apple, cherry, peach or plum; or, the state or season of such efflorescence (7) |
| PEAR | A pome of a rosaceous tree given with a partridge as the first gift in The Twelve Days of Christmas (4) |
| SHOOP | Word repeated in a Cher song title that becomes a place to buy things if one O is removed |
| DOWNTIME | The one o'clock from Newry perhaps constitutes a lack of productivity (8) |
| HEARSE | What's a one-o lift, without a fare, that'd drive anybody to God knows where? (6) |
| DISTORTION | Process of being twisted out of shape; that which is warped; a change of waveform as a fuzzy effect in music; or, misrepresentation of the truth (10) |
| AVENS | A rosaceous plant of the genus Geum (5) |
| GARDEN | Shrubbery or plot often with many a rosaceous or brambly prick, perhaps cottagey, secret or veritably Edenic (6) |
| IKNOW | - - Why the Caged Bird Sings; one o Maya Angelou's autobiographies (1,4) |
| BREAKCOVER | Appear in the open when lunchtime's finished around one o'clock (5,5) |
| CANNELLONI | Wide tubes of pasta stuffed with a meat or vegetable mixture; from Italian, "large reeds' (1 O) |
| TORMENTIL | Bloodroot, a rosaceous downy perennial (9) |
| JAPONICA | Short girl crossing European river by a rosaceous shrub |
| APRICOT | A rosaceous tree bearing downy, yellow, juicy edible fruit (7) |
| ROSEHIP | Fruit of a rosaceous plant (4-3) |
| ERA | "I'm in my cozy ___" - me, wandering around the office with a fuzzy blanket draped around me like a shawl |
| DRUPE | Botanical word for a fruit with a stone, such as a peach, cherry, nectarine, apricot or olive (5) |
