| REMEMBERTHEMAIZE | Historic cry with a kernel of truth to it? |
| LOSTCAUSE | Couldn't find a kernel of truth in the case - hopeless quest! (4,5) |
| VALIDITY | Lady Vi? It has a ring of truth to it (8) |
| LIEDETECTOR | It has a measure of truth to it (3,8) |
| RING | "That has the ___ of truth to it" |
| NIBLET | Small piece of food esp. a kernel of sweetcorn (6) |
| CHESTNUT | Sung about by Nat King Cole, a kernel of a deciduous tree often roasted, used for chocolate truffle cake or candied for Marron glace (8) |
| PIP | Word for a single blossom; a lily of the valley rhizome; a chirp of a bird; a dot on a domino; or, from the name of an apple grown from seed, a tiny fruitlet or kernel of a Bramley, Cox, grape, strawb |
| NUT | Fruit with a kernel in a hard shell (3) |
| EAR | Spiraea flower turns up with a kernel (3) |
| NUTANT | Fruit with a kernel pursued by an insect is drooping |
| GINGERNUT | A dunker's choice of Cornish fairing-like spicy biscuit or snap, partly named for being like a kernel with a tough shell, thus hard to crack (6,3) |
| DANGERPOINT | Moment of truth to a thrill-seeker |
| AMATTEROIFACT | A flat claim of truth to be tested in court (1,6,2,4) |
| 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 |
| ISOBAR | Constant pressure here, I cry with a touch of rancour (6) |
| FIB | There's no truth to it |
| LIE | There's no truth to it |
| 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) |
| OUNCE | "There isn't an ___ of truth to that" |