| TOMATO | Fruit or |
| NUT | Botanical seed within a shell such as an acorn, filbert or conker; or, a culinary word for a fruit or kernel such as a pistachio, almond, cashew or macadamia (3) |
| STEM | Section forming part of a ship, bike, wine glass, watch, musical note or letter; or, a structure that supports a flower, fruit or leaf (4) |
| TARTANS | An individual pastry case with a filling of fruit or other sweet or savoury mixture (7) |
| SASS | Stewed fruit or preserves / impudent / disrespectful manner or speech |
| PRESERVE | General name for an often homemade food prepared from fruit or vegetables such as jam, jelly, marmalade, lemon curd or chutney (8) |
| PEEL | The skin or rind of a fruit or vegetable (4) |
| STILTON | Variety of blue cheese used for quiches and souffles, or eaten with crackers, fruit or port (7) |
| CROP | Hunting/equestrian whip with loop instead of a lash; or, a season's yield of cereal, vegetables, fruit or flowers (4) |
| STILLLIFE | Description of a painting or drawing of inanimate objects, such as Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit or Braque's Violin and Candlestick (5,4) |
| SUGARPLUM | Mentioned in A Visit from St. Nicholas, a crystallised damsonlike fruit, or; a spiced fruit-and-nut confection resembling such (5,4) |
| PUREE | Smooth cream of liquidized or crushed fruit or vegetables (5) |
| CUP | Fruit or summer, a classic Pimm's, gin, claret or lemonade cocktail traditionally garnished with strawberries, cucumber, fresh mint and borage flowers (3) |
| AVOCADO | Pear-shaped fruit or berry with green flesh used for guacamole or as a topping for toast (7) |
| PEPO | Botanical description of a fleshy cucurbitaceous fruit or berry with a hard rind such as a watermelon, pumpkin, cucumber or squash (4) |
| KIWI | A fruit - or bird or person - from New Zealand (4) |
| PRESS | Device for extracting juice from fruit or oil from olives; a printing machine; or, a linen cupboard (5) |
| BANANA | Plantain-like fruit or berry used to flavour a variety of sponge cake or a pudding with a caramel filling (6) |
| COCKTAIL | Drink prepared by a mixologist; or, a medley of fruit or seafood (8) |
| SMASH | Powerful overhead volley in tennis or badminton; a type of julep cocktail with herbs and hunks of seasonal fruit; or, a hit single (5) |
