| SECONDBANANA | Not one of the first-fruits is inferior |
| LAMMAS | Also called Loaf Mass day, this is a festival in the liturgical calendar to mark the blessing of the first fruits of harvest |
| FIG | One of the first fruits cultivated by humans |
| ANNAT | The first-fruits produced by an ant (5) |
| ANNATES | A girl eats up the first fruits (7) |
| HIPS | Fried food, but not the first fruit (4) |
| SWAZILAND | Incwala is a six-day festival in the country of Eswatini to celebrate the tasting of the season's first fruits, cleansing, renewal, and kingship. How was Eswatini previously known? |
| DATES | In C4 reality show with Fred Sirieix, the first fruits from a palm (5) |
| APPEAR | Look after patients, taking the first fruit (6) |
| SPOOR | The track is inferior beyond the end of the pass (5) |
| EARNEST | Word for money paid in advance as a deposit or guarantee, hence a pledge, assurance or foretaste of what is to come; or, first-fruits (7) |
| FINLAND | Get first fruits in country that's part of Scandinavia (7) |
| UNDER | Is inferior to some of the bounders (5) |
| TATTIES | Potatoes, one of them is inferior (7) |
| SPELT | It's the gospel truth! The wheat is inferior in there |
| APPLE | Little Paul turns pale perhaps at the sight of a first fruit! (5) |
| LETINTO | Admit Spanish red wine is inferior to the French (3,4) |
| SUBJECTMATTER | What's on the table is inferior stuff (7,6) |
| AMPHIMIXIS | Half of stereo recording balance is inferior to amplifier reproduction |
| BENNETT | English novelist, it's clear, is inferior to one such as Jonson |
