| MIRABELLA | From the Latin meaning "wondrous beauty", a sweet, yellow plum-like variety of greengage (9) |
| MIRABELLE | A small sweet yellow plum used for making a liqueur (9) |
| LOQUAT | Eriobotrya japonica, cultivated for its small yellow plum-like fruits (6) |
| CUSTODY | Stir for a while something like a sweet yellow sauce you say? (7) |
| ALLGOLD | A sweet, yellow-flowering raspberry - completely touched by Midas? (3,4) |
| CUSTARDAPPLE | Tropical fruit with a sweet yellow flesh (7,5) |
| CONNEMARA | Described by Oscar Wilde as a "savage beauty", a mountainous coastal region of Galway bordering the |
| GREENGAGE | Plum-like green fruit cultivated from a tree brought from France in the 18th Century (9) |
| LEDASTRAY | Mother of great beauty a waif deceived (3,6) |
| AESTHETIC | Appreciating beauty, a jerk hoards these everywhere (9) |
| KALE | Leafy brassica with a curly variety and the Tuscan lacinato or cavolo nero; or, from the ancient Greek meaning "beauty", a moon of Jupiter named after one of the Charites or Graces (4) |
| CRACKER | A biscuit serving as a vehicle for conveying cheese from plate to palate; a prawn-flavoured crisp-like snack; a banger; a beauty; a hacker; or, a snapper once called a bonbon (7) |
| PERSIMMON | Plum-like fruit (9) |
| FLOS | Paired with "ferri", thus "flower of iron", a coral-like variety of aragonite, found around natural hot springs (4) |
| YUCCA | The Joshua tree is a tree-like variety of what plant? (5) |
| FRUIT | From the Latin meaning "enjoyment of produce or harvest", an edible part of a plant, such as an apple, fig, gooseberry, greengage, medlar, pear, plum or quince (5) |
| GAGE | An old word for a pledge, such as a glove, flung down as a symbol of a challenge to combat; or, the Baronet of Hengrave credited with introducing a damson-, mirabelleor plum-like green fruit to Englan |
| SUNSET | Day's end and a popular 'Cox'-like variety of eating apple (6) |
| DRUPE | From the Greek meaning "olive", a botanical word for a stone fruit such as the aforementioned or the almond, apricot, cherry, damson, greengage, mirabelle or sloe (5) |
| PRUNE | Shrivelled wrinkled potentially unappealing dried plum likened to an unpleasant or disagreeable sour-faced grump; or, a clip of a fan-trained damson or lop of a greengage tree, perhaps (5) |
