| NUTLET | Pit of a plum or cherry |
| DRUPE | Fleshy stone fruit, such as a plum or cherry (5) |
| DRUPELET | Small peach, plum or cherry |
| TOMATO | Plum or cherry? (6) |
| PARTERRE | The pit of a theatre, a formal flower-bed (8) |
| STONE | Pit of a fruit |
| ABYSS | The pit of a baby's stomach (5) |
| 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) |
| HOLE | But this is the pits of a kip: let it go to the devil! (8) |
| HELL | But this is the pits of a kip: let it go to the devil! (8) |
| MAGNUM | From the Latin for "great", a bottle of wine of twice the standard size; or, with "bonum", a large variety of apple, plum or potato (6) |
| BLOOM | A flower; a rosy colour; a healthy glow on one's cheeks; a fine powdery coating on chocolate, grapes or plums; or, a rapid seasonal flourish of algae (5) |
| LUMP | What a shapeless mass of a plum that is! (4) |
| DAMSON | Name a small dark-blue fruit of a plum (6) |
| STONER | A utensil for pitting cherries, olives, plums or other drupe fruits; a habitual user of Cannabis sativa or, a lapidator, pelting rocks as a punishment (6) |
| PRUNUS | From the Latin for "plum tree", a genus of arbors grown for almond or cherry blossom in the spring or for fruits including the aforesaid or apricots, peaches or nectarines (6) |
| LESSERHORSESHOE | Species of bat found in the UK that is about the size of a plum (6,9) |
| SLOE | Relative of a plum |
| APLOMB | Self-possession of a plum, we hear (6) |
| ALMOND | Seed of a plum joined regularly (6) |
