| HONEYDEW | and 22 Darling models new strange fruit (8,6) |
| MELONS | Darling models new strange fruit (8,6) |
| LODESTAR | Model new set of leotards (8) |
| BILLIEHOLIDAY | Singer whose hits include Strange Fruit and Stormy Weather (6,7) |
| EARTRUMPET | Rate new, strange, favourite hearing aid (3,7) |
| NODDED | New strange journalist having indicated agreement (6) |
| POMEGRANATES | Australians say British developed a strange fruit (12) |
| ABERRANT | Strange Fruit, mainly penned by suggestion of Adam Ant |
| TANGERINES | Transcribed essential part of Nina Simone's ultimate Strange Fruit |
| LILLIAN | "Strange Fruit" author Smith |
| ORANGES | So anger bears strange fruit |
| PEAR | Reap the strange fruit |
| LADYDAY | "Strange Fruit" singer, casually |
| ALTEREDSTATES | 14, 16 and 17; or 3 and 25; or 1, 13 and 22 (7,6) |
| GROSS | and 11: Total class 14 17 = 1ac and 22 6? (5,9) |
| PAPER | And 22 1975 drama starring David Niven and Toshiro Mifune (5,5) |
| CITY | and 22: Dweller in a large town seen as over-sophisticated and untrustworthy (4,7) |
| ERICA | And 22 Author of novels Fear of Flying, Sappho's Leap and Inventing Memory (5,4) |
| ONCE | , 19 and 22 2003 action film starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Johnny Depp (4,4,1,4,2,6) |
| MISS | And 22 2000 action-comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine (4,12) |
