| FORAGING | Wildcraft of searching for provisions such as blackberries, mushrooms, nettles, rosehips, hazelnuts or elderflowers (8) |
| BRIERS | General term denoting any woody prickly plants such as blackberries (6) |
| RATIONS | Fixed allowances of provisions, such as those recorded in special books on the home front during the Second World War shortages, for example (7) |
| TREASUREHUNT | Game of searching for hidden items by means of clues |
| STANLEYTUCCI | TV host of Searching for Italy (7,5) |
| HEDGEROW | Frequented by prickly furze-pigs, hotchi-witchis or urchins, a bosky boundary of bushes whose seasonal bounty includes brambles, burdock, crab-apples, elderberries, haws, hazelnuts, rosehips and sloes |
| JELLY | From "frost, to freeze", word for a savoury dish of fish/meat set in a mould of aspic in the Middle Ages, later a set but wobbly fruit-flavoured pudding; a conserve of medlars, mint, redcurrants or ro |
| FORAGE | Word, ultimately from "straw", for the provender in a cow's trough or the hay thrown over a stable door; or, a wild rummage amongst the undergrowth for edible berries, herbs, mushrooms, rosehips or ti |
| EXPLORATION | Action of searching an area for natural resources (11) |
| CRUMBLE | Mixture of plain flour, butter and sugar as a topping for baked seasonal fruits such as Bramley apples, blackberries or rhubarb (7) |
| ROLLO | Chocolate caramel covering centre of hazelnuts for Scotland prop of the 60s (5) |
| HAWS | From the Old English meaning "hedge", fruits of the tree Crataegus that form part of the countryside's seasonal bounty with brambles, rosehips, elderberries and sloes (4) |
| SEISMOGRAPHIC | Magic rosehips provide the kind of information that can be earthshattering (13) |
| GRILL | Ask a lot of searching questions about restaurant (5) |
| FINETOOTHCOMB | Method of searching or investigating in minute detail (4-5,4) |
| SYMPOSIUM | Conference room finally found after bit of searching by my pious doctor |
| VIATICA | Archaic term for provisions or money supplied for a journey |
| NOISETTE | Hybrid of the China rose and the musk rose; a chocolate made with hazelnuts; a medallion of lamb; or, an espresso with a dash of milk (8) |
| NUTELLA | Ferrero product which apparently uses a quarter of the world supply of hazelnuts |
| ORE | Producer of the overwhelming majority of American hazelnuts (abbr.) |
