| HUE | Plum or apricot |
| 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) |
| FRUITCAKE | Peach or apricot, for example (5,4) |
| FRUIT | Peach or apricot |
| COLOR | Cream or apricot |
| 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) |
| LEKVAR | Jamlike spread of prunes or apricots |
| TREE | Source for apples or apricots |
| STONE | The kernel of an apricot, cherry, peach, plum or other drupe fruit; a gem such as a diamond; or, a rock as a weight prior to its standardisation as an imperial unit of 14lbs (5) |
| 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) |
| SLOE | A "wild plum" or "winter pick" of the blackthorn, used to flavour gin, hedgerow jelly, prunelle or wine (4) |
| DAMSON | A small plum or large sloe; or, with "cheese", jam made of said bullace (6) |
| DRUPE | Plum or cherry |
| DRUPELET | Small peach, plum or cherry |
| TOMATO | "Plum" or "beef" fruit? (6) |
| PETNAME | Sugar plum or sweetie pie, e.g. |
| NUTLET | Pit of a plum or cherry |
| ORCHARD | Type of garden containing at least five apple, pear, cherry, plum or walnut trees, common in Kent, Lanarkshire, Somerset and Worcestershire (7) |
| ACTON | English food writer whose Modern Cookery for Private Families contains the first recipe for the fig-, plum- or raisin-based dish she called "Christmas pudding" (5) |
| MORSE | Invented copper, plum or sea-green dresses (5) |
