| PRUNUS | Tree of the plum family (6) |
| SLOE | Member of the plum family |
| APRICOT | Fruit of the plum family (7) |
| CHOICE | Word for the act/power of electing, hand-picking, opting or selecting; the thing decided on; or, the best or preferable part, aka the plum (6) |
| NECTARINE | A non-fuzzy peach of the plum tree genus Prunus, with the aforesaid fruits plus the apricot, bullace, cherry, damson and others (9) |
| UPHEAP | Pile high in odd places: place the plum towards the top |
| DAMSON | What small, dark purple fruit is closely related to the plum? (6) |
| SUGAR | Dance of the - Plum Fairy ; piece for the celesta in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (5) |
| GREENGAGE | Chartreuse-coloured fruit similar to any one of the plums originally used to make a version of a Christmas pudding but substituted with raisins by the Victorians (9) |
| MATISSE | French artist whose work includes The Plum Blossoms and Beasts Of The Sea, Henri ... |
| MICE | Kitchen pests got into the plum ices (4) |
| PRUNE | Cut back the plum that's dry! (5) |
| EATEN | "I have ___ the plums that were in the icebox" |
| DRUPE | Fruit such as the plum or cherry whose stony endocarp encloses a single seed (5) |
| ORCHARDS | Old church member is strict on school and those with the plum jobs perhaps (8) |
| RUMPLED | Angry about the plum duff, needing to be smoothed over (7) |
| ELECTRONS | Negatively charged agents of anionic attraction - the "plums" in J J Thomson's atomic "pudding" (9) |
| REENGAGES | Takes one on again if one doesn't begin the plums (9) |
| LOQUAT | Fruiting evergreen tree of the rose family, Eriobotrya japonica, also known as the Japanese plum (6) |
| APPLES | Edible fruits of a tree of the rose family (6) |
