| 20 answers for: Word, from French for "overripe pear", for a state... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| BLET | Word, from French for "overripe pear", for a state of softness or decay in a fruit such as a medlar or quince (4) |
| DRUPE | From the Latin for "overripe olive", an indehiscent fruit with a stone, such as the aforesaid or a plum (5) |
| PARAKEET | Bird might take pear for a change (8) |
| MUSHY | Like an overripe pear |
| TENDERNESS | Softness or affection (10) |
| WINDFALL | A fruit such as an apple or pear blown down from a tree by a breeze or zephyr, thus a word for an unexpected fruitful acquisition or trouvaille (8) |
| REGLET | Word, from French for "little rule", for a column of a page originally, later a narrow band separating mouldings; a fillet; or, a strip of wood for making white spaces between type in printing (6) |
| POME | From the Latin meaning "apple", a fruit such as the aforesaid or any one of its relatives including pear, quince and medlar; or, priest's handwarming silver ball of hot water (4) |
| 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 |
| BLOOM | A bluebell, daisy, pansy, pink, sweet pea or other inflorescence; the state of flowering; a rosy glow; a time of greatest beauty, freshness, prosperity or vigour; or, powderiness on chocolate or a fru |
| APPLE | Autumnally bobbed from a bucket of water with one's teeth or placed on a stick and coated in toffee, a pome related to the medlar, pear and quince; or, the wood of said fruit's tree (5) |
| CITRUS | General name for a fruit such as a Seville orange, bergamot or Sorrento lemon, used for marmalade, Earl Grey, neroli or limoncello, for example (6) |
| EPICARP | Botanical term for the outermost layer of a fruit, such as the skin of a peach or grape (7) |
| ENDOCARP | The inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp of a fruit, such as the stone of a peach or cherry (8) |
| FUNK | Oxford University slang for a state of anxiety or panic; a musty or smoky smell; or, a soulful style of dance music with syncopated basslines and a strong rhythmic groove (4) |
| GAS | A word, based on the Greek for "chaos", for a state of matter, such as carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen, ozone or xenon (3) |
| TRONC | Word, from French for "collecting box" or "poor box", for a pool of tips to be divided out among catering, hotel or restaurant staff; or, the system by which this is done (5) |
| FRUIT | From the Latin meaning "enjoyment of produce or harvest", an edible part of a plant, such as an apple, fig, gooseberry, greengage, medlar, pear, plum or quince (5) |
| TURMOIL | Word, thought to be from French for "mill hopper", in allusion to its constant motion to and fro, for a state of agitation, chaos or commotion (7) |
| PEPO | From Latin for "pumpkin", a fruit such as a gourd, melon or squash (4) |
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