| RECCE | Survey about the kernel of success (5) |
| 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) |
| COPRA | The kernel of an oily business is chasing crooks registered by middleman (5) |
| POLLS | Surveys about cutting the hair short? (5) |
| FORECAST | Trees harbouring the kernel of arcane prophecy (8) |
| NUT | The kernel of some fruit |
| 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) |
| ALMONER | Hospital worker detailed the kernel of a tree with little hesitation (7) |
| APRICOT | The liqueur, Creme de Noyaux, is made from the kernels of this stone fruit |
| PERSICO | A cordial flavoured with the kernels of peaches and apricots (7) |
| MARASCHINO | Liqueur made from and flavoured with the kernels of marasca cherries |
| COBNUTS | Also called filberts, the kernels of wild hazel bushes served in game dishes, foragers' recipes or simply roasted (7) |
| TITUS | Kernel of nut eaten by birds in New Testament letter (5) |
| PECAN | Bird missing kernel of slim nut (5) |
| WACKO | Tips of wild asparagus and crushed kernels of nuts |
| PIP | Word for a single blossom; a lily of the valley rhizome; a chirp of a bird; a dot on a domino; or, from the name of an apple grown from seed, a tiny fruitlet or kernel of a Bramley, Cox, grape, strawb |
| PAYROLL | List of workers in survey about Scottish town (7) |
| INANUTSHELL | The position of the kernel, to put it briefly (2,1,8) |
| NUTS | The kernel is usually the edible part of these foods with hard shells (4) |
| CORNCOB | The core of an ear of maize to which the kernels are attached (7) |
