| HEPS | Fruit a great deal lacking in pith |
| CONTRETEMPS | Tory politicians divided by deal, lacking answer on European disagreement |
| HEADLESS | He's outlining dodgy deals lacking capital (8) |
| LEASEHOLD | Whole deals, lacking capital, will be spoiled by tenure agreement (9) |
| EMAIL | Send fruit back, concealing contagion in pith (5) |
| SAFARI | Expedition for people in pith helmets |
| BOLL | Cotton pod's smell mellow in pith (4) |
| TOPEE | Head, occasionally even in pith helmet (5) |
| CHIP | A flake of stone; a splinter; one of a number of thin woody strips interwoven into a basket or box for fruit; a punnet fashioned in this manner; a French fry; or, in the US, a potato crisp (4) |
| FLUSH | A startled flock of rising or springing game birds; a fresh bloom of flowers, foliage or fruit; a suffusion of a reddish or rosy colour; or, a hand of poker cards, all of the same suit (5) |
| STONE | The kernel of an apricot, cherry, peach, plum or other drupe fruit; a gem such as a diamond; or, a rock as a weight prior to its standardisation as an imperial unit of 14lbs (5) |
| NUT | An acorn, conker, filbert or other such indehiscent fruit; a hard gingery biscuit; a lump of coal; one's head; a sky goddess; or, a young blood (3) |
| SQUASH | A fruit, a sport, and a soft drink |
| UGLI | Fruit, a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine (4) |
| TANGELO | Citrus fruit, a hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit (7) |
| SATSUMA | Fruit a requirement, like in a turnover? |
| ADMIRAL | Red -; feeding on buddleia and rotting orchard fruit, a butterfly that is a common feature of the British countryside despite being a seasonal migrant (7) |
| LIME | A citrus fruit; a shade of green; or, a tree with heart-shaped leaves which is also known as linden (4) |
| TANGO | Codeword following Sierra; a sultry dance of seduction, originally of despair; or, alluding to a clementine-like fruit, a deep shade of orange (5) |
| ANANAS | From Tupi-Guarani for "fragrant excellent fruit", a word for a pineapple in Dutch, French, German, Italian and many other languages (6) |
