| ETHENE | Hydrocarbon involved in the ripening of fruits |
| PECTIN | Gelatinous substance formed in the ripening of fruits (6) |
| GEOCARPY | In botany, the ripening of fruits below ground, as in the peanut (8) |
| OLIVECOMPLETION | Ripening of a Mediterranean fruit? |
| CYANIDE | Toxic chemical compound first isolated from Prussian blue in 1782 and present in high quantities in the stones and seeds of fruits such as apples, apricots and peaches (7) |
| EXOCARP | Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits, eg. the skin of a peach or grape (7) |
| BLET | State of softness or decay in certain fruits, such as the medlar, brought about by over-ripening (4) |
| JUICE | From French for "broth", the extract of fruits or vegetables; vitality or vigour; an informal term for alcohol, electricity or fuel; or, the name of an ESA Jupiter mission (5) |
| CITRUS | Genus, echoing the roots/aroma of "cedar, conifer", of a sweet or sour bunch of fruits including bergamot, clementine, lemon, lime and orange (6) |
| EPICARP | Outer layer of the pericarp of fruits (7) |
| SEEDLESSGRAPE | Venus, Mars or Saturn, in the world of fruits |
| BRIEF | Cheese and first of fruits put in the picture (5) |
| RATHE | Of flowers or fruit, blooming or ripening early in the season (5) |
| DOGROSE | With pink flowers signalling an approaching summer, a wild climber found intertwined with brambles in hedgerows and woodland edges or with ripening fruit in the autumn (3,4) |
| AVOCADOPEARS | Town in Wicklow and Hull raising units of corn and a number of fruits? (7,5) |
| MANGOSTEEN | Thick-rinded, sweet-fleshed 'Queen of Fruits' grown on a tropical tree of the genus Garcinia (10) |
| PLANE | Tree of the genus Platanus having ball-shaped heads of fruits (5) |
| COMPOTE | Old French-derived "put together" pudding of fruits or "mixed" breakfast dish of berries, cooked, preserved, reduced or stewed in sugar syrup (7) |
| BERIBERI | Report of a couple of fruits producing disease (8) |
| ALIMENT | A couple of fruits, the second hollow food (7) |
