| NEHI | Orange, peach or strawberry product |
| SOFTFRUIT | A small characteristically stoneless squishable food of bramble, cane, earth or vine, such as a blackberry, goosegog, grape, rasp, redcurrant or strawberry (4,5) |
| YANK | Throneberry or Strawberry, once |
| BLOND | Ash or strawberry |
| CRAN | Grape, Cherry or Strawberry lead-in |
| RED | Cardinal or strawberry |
| JAM | Word that may follow "traffic" or "strawberry" |
| NERDS | Grape or Strawberry candies |
| PATCH | Briar or strawberry follower |
| NYMET | Piazza or Strawberry, e.g. |
| FLAVOR | Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry |
| MET | Throneberry or Strawberry, once |
| DOYLY | *Raggedy Ann or Strawberry Shortcake, tenderly |
| PENNIES | Jam -; bite-sized circular sandwiches with raspberry or strawberry conserve served as part of afternoon tea (7) |
| HORSE | Animal with bay, dun, palomino or strawberry roan coat for example (5) |
| PRESERVE | An often homemade mixture such as marmalade, lemon curd, stem ginger in syrup, mint/rose jelly or strawberry conserve, traditionally stored in jars (8) |
| PIE | Good guess: If your friend has red stuff around her mouth while gobbling down a slice of ___, it's probably cherry or strawberry |
| BLOSSOM | A flower or mass of flowers preceding the fruit of a rosaceous tree, such as the almond, apple, cherry, peach or plum; or, the state or season of such efflorescence (7) |
| RATAFIA | Liqueur or cordial flavoured with peach or cherry kernels, bitter almonds, or other fruits |
| PASTEL | A chalk-like stick of pigment; a work of art created with such a crayon; a soft or muted colour such as baby blue, duck egg, lavender, peach or powder pink; or, woad (6) |
