| QUINCE | Fruit related to apples, pears and medlars (6) |
| MEDLAR | Fruit related to apples and roses, traditionally bletted before being made into jelly (6) |
| PEAR | Fruit related to apple |
| LONGAN | Tropical fruit related to lychee (6) |
| PAWPAW | Fruit related to the soursop |
| FRUGAL | Apples, pears, etc. cut by half with girl anxious to avoid waste? |
| EQUATE | Compare apples to apples? |
| REMEDY | Hereby medlar is cooked to provide a natural cure (6,6) |
| HERBAL | Hereby medlar is cooked to provide a natural cure (6,6) |
| TOFFEE | Sugar heated until caramelised, applied to apples on sticks or enriched with butter for pudding sauce (6) |
| LOQUAT | The fruit of a tree native to China and Japan - also called Japanese medlar |
| DERIDE | Mock dried bananas close to apple (6) |
| DERMAL | Like the skin of a stewed medlar (6) |
| BEAMER | Mac-to-Apple TV streaming app |
| ITUNES | Precursor to Apple Music |
| PEARS | With cultivars including Anjou, Doyenne du Comice, Conference, jargonelle and Williams, orchard fruits related to quinces and medlars (5) |
| APPLE | Bramley, Cox's orange pippin, russet ... a fruit related to roses, quinces, almonds and pears used for cider, vinegar, tarte tatin and Dorset cake (5) |
| THIN | It's time to ___ out heavy crops of apples, pears and plums (4) |
| PYRAMID | Form of training ideal for apples, pears and plums (7) |
| POMES | Botanical word for fruits including apples, pears and quinces (5) |
