| LONGAN | Tropical fruit related to lychee (6) |
| ACKEE | Tropical fruit related to the lychee (5) |
| QUINCE | Sacred to Aphrodite and often depicted in botanical art, a fruit related to medlars and apples, used for membrillo, marmalade or jelly with rose geranium (6) |
| MEDLAR | Bletted and used for jelly or "cheese", a fruit related to the rose, apple, quince and hawthorn, typically found in farmers' markets or old gardens (6) |
| MELONS | Vine-grown fruits related to cucumbers |
| CHEESE | Some lychee served as final course (6) |
| LITCHI | Alternative spelling of 'lychee' (6) |
| FRUITS | Lilikoi and lychee |
| NEATLY | Some can eat lychees gracefully! (6) |
| PLUM | Old word for £100,000; nickname of P. G. Wodehouse; or, a fruit related to damson, sloe, greengage and mirabelle used to make a variety of membrillo (4) |
| SLOES | Fruit related to cherry plums |
| GOURD | Large fruit related to the pumpkin and squash (5) |
| SLOE | Fruit related to a plum |
| PEAR | Fruit related to apple |
| LEMON | Fruit related to citrons, pomelos and mandarins (5) |
| GHERKINS | Green fruit related to cucumbers (8) |
| UMEBOSHI | Pickled fruit related to the apricot |
| KUMQUAT | Orange-like fruit related to the citruses (7) |
| APPLE | Pomaceous fruit related to quince and pear, baked in charlotte, cobbler, tarte tatin or a traditional Dorset cake (5) |
| TANGERINE | Citrus fruit related to a mandarin (incl. "Barefoot Contessa" Ina, tossed, in the circled letters) |
