| BOSC | Pear with brown skin |
| TRAJAN | Emperor with brown skin securing power in India |
| KIWI | Green fruit with brown skin |
| ALMOND | Edible oval nut with brown skin (6) |
| PLAICE | Edible North Atlantic flatfish with brown skin and red or orange spots; Pleuronectes platessa (6) |
| NASHI | Asian pear with green-yellow skin (5) |
| COMICE | Sweet dessert pear with green-yellow skin, often served poached or in frangipane tarts (6) |
| GRAPE | German confused pear with another fruit (5) |
| NEWSCONFERENCE | Opportunity provided to press pear, with directions |
| GRAPEVINE | Fruit supplier given pear with a difference |
| COMIC | Pear with no end is highly amusing |
| DRAPERY | Somehow dry pear with curtains |
| REAPER | One harvesting wild pear with little hesitation |
| EARTH | Home to peel pears with tough skin (5) |
| OPUNTIA | Cactus such as the prickly pear, with fleshy branched stems and green, red or yellow flowers (7) |
| DRAPE | Loosely arrange cooked pear with custard, finally, on top |
| BEURRE | French word for butter, thus a class of pear with buttery mellow flesh (6) |
| CHESIL | Word for gravel, shingle or small beach pebbles, as in Dorset's Jurassic Coast, thus coarse flour, granular bran or a pear with a gritty texture (6) |
| APRICOT | Fruit, a pear with core removed I put on bed (7) |
| STANNARD | Norwich School artist who painted Still Life, Pelargoniums, Duchess Pears with Black Grapes in a Basket and Still Life of Raspberries in a Willow Pattern Bowl with Cherries and Bindweed (8) |
