Result and answers for the Fruit & Veg Quiz


The first in the series for this year was Fruit & Veg, now closed.   

There were 70 entries received, of which 30 were fully correct.  The answers to Fruit and Veg are bel;ow

Congratulations, and the prize of £25, to the winner who is Caroline Peters from Pirton, with the tie-break clue: "I strangle Arthur"  (artichoke).

Answers to Fruit & Veg Quiz

Murphy’s nickname, in full (6)  potato 
Always found in an orchard, but not on a tree (5)  chard 
Clear ice not found in the freezer (8)  celeriac       anagram 
Shoe polish? (4)  kiwi 
I saw my old car rot in a field (6)  carrot 
This answer is hard, somehow (6)  radish          anagram 
Has its own song about a boat (6)  banana 
A sort of crop that turns the fields yellow now up a tree (4)  pear 
Relatives by a village water supply (7)  pumpkin 
10  Sounds like interring the gosling’s parent (10)  gooseberry 
11  The colour of the future, we’re told (6)  orange 
12  Liverpool fields (10)  strawberry 
13  Sort of support across the top of a door (6)  lentil            anagram 
14  Chekhov’s orchard (6)  cherry 
15  Flatten a sport (6)  squash 
16  The sort of citrus fruit that isn’t citrus (5)  melon           anagram 
17  Patchy companion to a lonely petunia (5)  onion 
18  He never received a purer gift in any way (10)  grapefruit      anagram 
19  This musical sergeant’s alone (6)  pepper 
20  This fruit is really not pretty (4)  ugli 
21  Very different from a cube of sugar, licked till it dissolves (6)  garlic 
22  The tastiest part of a device made to imitate a human (6)  tomato    (automaton) 
23  Don’t use rancid roe to make caviar - try something else (9)  coriander    anagram 
24  Voiceless linguolabial trill, or Bronx cheer (9)  raspberry 
25  Secretary to famous Belgian(?) (5)  lemon 
26  I hear you haven’t fixed that drip (4)  leek 
27  Bond’s Cubby hole (8)  broccoli 
28  German Chancellor with 80% of an Israeli PM (8)  kohlrabi 
29  Fawlty host (5)  basil 
30  Lasts longer that a PM? (7)  lettuce 
31  Here is a pea, chopped up (5)  peach 
32  It has a hole in it (4)  mint 
33  Obsolete personal communications device with keyboard (10)  blackberry 
34  Jack’s giant stalk (4)  bean 
35  5280 feet, in a way (4)  lime              anagram 
36  He wears a striped jumper and a sort of beret too (8)  beetroot 
37  Its most famous proponent liked it with Olive Oyl (7)  spinach 
38  Hiding in Germany (6)  ginger 
39  Alfred Nobel or Greta Garbo (5)  swede 
40  In in a French inn (9)  auberg(in)e 
41  This the sort of rock I hate (9)  artichoke 
42  Found in a triangle (7)  rhubarb 
43  Steinbeck’s were very angry (5)  grape 
44  Make something of this rascal bee (9)  calabrese     anagram 
45  A pulse in a pear (3)  pea 
46  Ma sat us down every year to eat this (7)  satsuma        anagram 
47  A sort of lump (4)  plum 
48  Sounds like what an American would call a trouser cuff (6)  turnip 
49  A bee can find nectar in every flower (9)  nectarine 
50  Call our wife and then add cheese (11)  cauliflower     anagram 
   

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