| INANUTSHELL | Where the kernel is, briefly (2,1,8) |
| NUTS | The kernel is usually the edible part of these foods with hard shells (4) |
| CASHEWNUT | Cuts when a kernel is produced (6,3) |
| APPEARS | A soft fruit with tasty kernel is exhibited |
| NUTRIENTS | Kernel is rent apart in food (9) |
| NUT | Kernel is central to minutes (3) |
| CEDE | Kernel is heard to yield (4) |
| COPRA | The kernel of an oily business is chasing crooks registered by middleman (5) |
| APRICOT | The liqueur, Creme de Noyaux, is made from the kernels of this stone fruit |
| FORECAST | Trees harbouring the kernel of arcane prophecy (8) |
| NUTSHELL | It holds the kernel (or summary?) (8) |
| PEANUT | Ante up for the kernel (6) |
| RECCE | Survey about the kernel of success (5) |
| NUTCASE | Screwball home for the kernel (7) |
| 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) |
| ALMONER | Hospital worker detailed the kernel of a tree with little hesitation (7) |
| CORNCOB | The core of an ear of maize to which the kernels are attached (7) |
| RATAFIA | Liqueur made from the leftover juice of champagne grapes mixed with brandy and flavoured with almonds or the kernels of peaches, apricots etc. (7) |
| ONT | Where "The Soo" is, briefly |
| CLIMAX | 151 is briefly the upper limit, the culmination (6) |
