| FRAISES | Strawberries, in Quebec |
| CHARLOTTERUSSE | Girl with cunning plan to include earliest of strawberries in creamy dessert (9,5) |
| BROAD | - beans; legumes seasonal in British gardens in the summer months at the same time as asparagus, courgettes, peas, spinach and strawberries (5) |
| THIRKELL | Depicted in a painting by John Collier, author whose novels set in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire include Summer Half, Wild Strawberries and August Folly (8) |
| ROSES | With a national collection of rambling varieties at Moor Wood in Gloucestershire, flowers in the family that includes apples, meadowsweet, pears, quinces and strawberries (5) |
| VINEGAR | Pickling ingredient used as a condiment to flavour fish and chips or, in balsamic form from Modena, to ripen strawberries (7) |
| JAM | Often homemade from gluts of strawberries, gooseberries or damsons, a preserve served with scones or in Victoria sandwiches (3) |
| SOS | International code for extreme distress, found in Rosso strawberries! (1,1,1) |
| AELTC | 'Strawberries and cream' tennis major organizer, in brief |
| LYCHEES | Trees in the soapberry family bearing scented white-fleshed fruits, or "alligator strawberries", with a flavour reminiscent of roses (7) |
| CREAM | Unctuous jollop, eaten with strawberries, yielding butter when churned or cooked in chicken a la king, fricassee or supreme (5) |
| ETON | "River-town" in Berkshire whose name is given to a boys' school, a collar, a cropped hairstyle, a game of fives, a jacket and a mess of crushed meringue and strawberries (4) |
| BLONDES | Strawberries |
| LIGHTS | Strawberries |
| HEMANGIOMAS | Strawberries |
| NEVI | Strawberries |
| BIRTHMARKS | Strawberries |
| PUNNET | Basket of strawberries (6) |
| ROANS | Strawberries at the Kentucky Derby, maybe |
| PATCH | place to pick strawberries |
