| BAP | Not all crab apples can be eaten |
| IBMS | Apples can be compared to them |
| GRANNYSMITH | Eating apple can put right many things in circulation |
| ANY | Whatever amount a Big Apple can provide (3) |
| SOUR | Like crab apples |
| TART | Like crab apples |
| ELDER | Woodland tree or shrub with berries used for jam, country wine, pontack sauce and a kind of hedgerow ketchup with crab apples, blackberries and haws, genus Sambucus (5) |
| HEDGEROW | Countryside's botanical border whose seasonal fruits may include crab apples, brambles, sloes, rosehips, bullaces, elderberries, juniper and wild cherry or gean (8) |
| PECTIN | From the Greek for "congealed", a substance present in citruses, crab-apples, currants, gooseberries, quinces, plums, unripe blackberries and other fruits, traditionally used for setting jams and jell |
| VERJUICE | Often prepared by a vigneron, the tart green extract of unripe crab-apples, grapes or other fruit, used as a source of sourness in medieval kitchens and in cookery today (8) |
| TARTNESS | Crab apple's quality |
| MEDLAR | Fruit like a crab apple, eaten half-rotten (6) |
| PEA | Not all peaches can be eaten! |
| EDIBLE | If it can be eaten, it can be lied about (6) |
| APPRECIABLE | Significant hybrid, i.e. crab apple (11) |
| OCONNOR | Frank ___, author of 1944 story collection Crab Apple Jelly (7) |
| YUCCA | Heads of Yale University cultivated crab apple plant (5) |
| POMES | Crab apple and others |
| WILDING | Uncultivated plant such as the crab-apple (7) |
| APPROACHABLE | 'Warm and cooked.' 'A crab apple. Oh!' (12) |
