| APPLES | Orchard fruits whose traditional Somerset cider varieties include Chisel Jersey, Dabinett, Harry Masters, Kingston Black and Yarlington Mill (6) |
| EDICT | Order some Somerset cider to be returned |
| TAUNTON | Somerset cider town (7) |
| PEARS | Fruits whose cultivars include the Comice and the Conference |
| ORANGES | Citrus fruits whose types include blood and navel (7) |
| CHURN | Butter-making apparatus whose traditional types include plunge, paddle, barrel etc. (5) |
| TAYBERRIES | Hybrid red fruits whose name shows their Scottish origin |
| PAPAYAS | Fruits whose seeds can act as a substitute for black peppercorns |
| FIGS | Fruits whose pollination by wasps is a central metaphor in A. V. Marraccini's "We the Parasites" |
| WEATHER | Meteorological conditions whose traditional means of prediction according to lore include observing animal behaviour, cloud shapes and colours of the sky (7) |
| INUIT | People whose traditional lands include Nunavut |
| IRAN | Country whose traditional folk music is called "musiqi asil" |
| SPURS | Popular name for the Premier League team whose traditional nickname is the Lilywhites (5) |
| NEATH | Welsh rugby union club whose traditional home ground is The Gnoll (5) |
| GURKHA | A Nepalese fighter whose traditional weapon was a curved knife or kukri (6) |
| APPLE | One of the traditional orchard fruits (5) |
| PEACH | From the Latin meaning "Persian apple", a rosaceous drupe resembling a fuzzy nectarine that is one of the fruits whose stone is ground to prepare persipan (5) |
| CACAOPODS | Fruits whose seeds are used to make chocolate |
| RIBES | Genus of blackcurrants, gooseberries and other soft fruits whose flavour is a sharply tart surprise, much like the Syrian rhubarb from which their name mistakenly derives (5) |
| LIMES | Fruits whose juice is used in margaritas |
