| DAMSONS | With varieties including Frogmore, Merryweather and Michaelmas, a cultivated variety of fruits known in their wild state as bullaces, used for gin, jam and spiced "cheese" (7) |
| ASTER | Flower also called a "Michaelmas daisy" (Is Michaelmas a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Mich |
| STONE | Large hard single seed characteristic of fruits known as drupes (5) |
| DRUPES | Olives / peach / cherry are of this variety of fruits |
| FLORA | Fauna, Merryweather and ___, fairy godmothers |
| SAVOY | A cultivated variety of cabbage, with a compact head and wrinkled leaves (5) |
| BROCCOLI | A cultivated variety of cabbage, with branched greenish flower heads (8) |
| KALE | A cultivated variety of cabbage with crinkled leaves (4) |
| SPROUT | Edible bud of a cultivated variety of brassica |
| KOHLRABI | A cultivated variety of cabbage also called turnip cabbage |
| CANTALOUP | A cultivated variety of musk melon (9) |
| MOSER | Artist known for flower paintings, a floral scheme at Frogmore House commissioned by Queen Charlotte, a portrait of sculptor Joseph Nollekens and for being one of only two female founders of the Royal |
| NECTARINE | A variety of peach with a smooth skin; and just as there are 'flat' peaches, a flatter type of this fruit, known locally as platerina, can be found for sale on Mallorcan market stalls (9) |
| CANTALOUPE | Cultivated variety of musk-melon with warty rind and orange flesh (10) |
| DAMSON | Bullace-like "Merryweather" drupe used for "cheese", cobbler, crumble, gin or hedgerow jam, quintessentially English and forming part of the core of a British orchard, yet whose name travels back to i |
| PANSY | Cultivated variety of viola with brightly coloured flowers (5) |
| ROSES | Plants in the apple family with berry-like fruits known as hips in late summer and autumn (5) |
| GRAPERY | Word for a building, estate, place or vineyard for the cultivation of the fruits known in French as raisins (7) |
| LONGVAC | Abbreviated name for a research period between Trinity Term and Michaelmas Term at Oxbridge (4,3) |
| DATE | Fruit known as a "devil on horseback" when stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon |
