| 20 answers for: Peeled, as a pear |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| PARED | Peeled, as a pear |
| POME | Fleshy fruit, as a pear |
| JUICY | Ripe, as a pear |
| RIPER | Juicier, as a pear |
| JUICIER | Riper, as a pear |
| RIPENED | Became yellow, as a pear |
| PEEL | Pare, as a pear |
| PARSED | Peeled, as potatoes |
| DROP | A pendant; a pinch; a precipice; a plummet/plunge; or, a pear sweet (4) |
| SLEEPY | Relating to "somnus", a word for drowsy or somnolent; inducing slumber; non-buzzing, quiet or sequestered, as in a little town/village; or, overripe and unjuicy, as in a pear (6) |
| FRUITKNIFE | Whether for coring an apple, hulling a strawberry, peeling a pear, segmenting a citrus or slicing a peach, it is a silver-bladed parer to keep out of reach (5-5) |
| AVOCADO | A pear-shaped fruit with a leathery green or blackish skin and a large, stony seed (7) |
| BOULE | An orb used in a petanque-like game; a pear- or tear drop-shaped imitation ruby or sapphire; or, French for a round loaf or cob of bread (5) |
| NONPAREIL | A person or thing without equal; one of "hundreds and thousands" of tiny beads of coloured sugar sprinkled on cakes or chocolate buttons; one such choc drop; or, a fine russet-type apple with a pear d |
| 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) |
| PARTRIDGE | "And a ___ in a pear tree" |
| GAME | A partridge in a pear tree, to some |
| TREE | ... and a partridge in a pear ___ |
| AND | "___ a partridge in a pear tree" |
| CORE | Center of a golf ball or a pear |
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