| Posh fruit? (4) |
|
|
| Professor ___, character from the board game "Clue" who shares his name with a purple summer fruit |
|
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| Best platinum ain't missing (4) |
|
|
| Round, stone-fruit |
|
|
| Preferred fruit |
|
|
| Cluedo character: Professor - |
|
|
| Nearly all opt for the fruit (4) |
|
|
| Stoned fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Jun 2025 |
| Little Jack Horner's haul for the Professor in Cluedo (4) |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Christmas pudding fruit |
|
|
| Main ingredient in the Japanese liqueur umeshu |
New York Times |
08 May 2025 |
| Prunus cerasifera, or cherry ___ , has white spring blossom (4) |
|
|
| First-class; fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Clue academic |
LA Times Daily |
22 Mar 2025 |
| Prune, originally |
|
|
| Prune's start |
|
|
| Prune, pre-drying |
|
|
| Deep purple |
LA Times Daily |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Variety of stone fruit (4) |
|
|
| Stone fruit |
The Times Concise |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Christmas dessert, ... pudding |
|
|
| Reddish purple hue |
LA Times Daily |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Fruit of the European Prunus domestica (4) |
|
|
| Future prune |
|
|
| Desirable and profitable, as an assignment |
New York Times |
14 Feb 2025 |
| Professor ___, Cluedo suspect (4) |
|
|
| Wodehouse's choice (4) |
|
|
| Purple Professor in the game of "Clue" |
|
|
| Brendan Cowell played footy hero Peter Lum in this |
|
|
| Professor ____, Cluedo character |
The Telegraph Mini |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Deep purple color |
|
|
| Soft purple fruit (4) |
|
|
| Best stone fruit? (4) |
|
|
| Reddish-purple shade (4) |
|
|
| Purple fruit |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2025 |
| The cream and the purplish red (4) |
|
|
| Professor who might use a rope |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Dec 2024 |
| Small tree with edible oval fruit |
Mirror Quiz |
29 Dec 2024 |
| Pruned well-rounded fruit tree (4) |
|
|
| Purple stone fruit |
|
|
| Brendan Cowell played an ex-footballer in this |
|
|
| Unfinished stout and fruit (4) |
|
|
| Professor ___ (Clue character) |
Universal |
17 Dec 2024 |
| ___ sauce (dip for chicken tenders) |
|
|
| A dark bluish-red color |
|
|
| Juicy fruit with a pit |
|
|
| This fruit sounds as if it is on the level (4) |
|
|
| Lump given surgical treatment in Jack Horner's quarry (4) |
|
|
| Reddish-purple feather loses a point (4) |
|
|
| How to stop lumps in the fruit mix (4) |
|
|
| Professor and sometime murderer |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
25 Oct 2024 |
| Fruit that's quite like a cherry (4) |
|
|
| Prune beginnings |
|
|
| By the sound of it, sheer, fleshy fruit (4) |
|
|
| Something choice hanging on the tree? (4) |
|
|
| Round or oval fruit with varieties such as damson, greengage, Mirabelle and Victoria (4) |
|
|
| Horner's prize |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Sep 2024 |
| Prune, before it was dried |
|
|
| Purple fruit with a stone (4) |
|
|
| A juicy lump? |
|
|
| Fruit that flavours the brandy slivovitz (4) |
|
|
| Fruit drops rapidly, 50 per cent off |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Sugar ___ Fairy from "The Nutcracker" |
Family Time |
25 Aug 2024 |
| Oval fleshy fruit (4) |
|
|
| Short feather, purple |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Choice - purple colour (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Aug 2024 |
| Chutney fruit |
LA Times Daily |
16 Aug 2024 |
| Prune, pre-drying |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Choice assignment |
Newsday |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Just short of fat but highly desirable! (4) |
|
|
| Fruit that becomes a prune |
Newsday |
15 Jul 2024 |
| A shade better than the others (4) |
|
|
| Sought-after, as a job; fruit |
The Telegraph Mini |
03 Jul 2024 |
| It's a good job it's a drupe (4) |
|
|
| Fruit that's dried to make a prune |
|
|
| Not entirely round fruit |
The Times Cryptic |
12 Jun 2024 |
| Fruit which, when dried, is a prune (4) |
|
|
| Fruit that's not quite well-rounded (4) |
|
|
| Something choice for Victoria, say (4) |
|
|
| Las Vegas Aces player Kelsey |
|
|
| Fruit roly-poly has 1p off |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
26 May 2024 |
| Prune, before drying |
USA Today |
23 May 2024 |
| When pressure is absorbed first, growth will be excellent (4) |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Fruit can make you no end fat! |
|
|
| Fruit with stone |
|
|
| Oval fruit |
|
|
| Which professor is a suspect in the game Cluedo? (4) |
|
|
| Tree that produces a firm, juicy drupe (4) |
|
|
| Especially valued; type of 11 Across? (4) |
|
|
| Professor ___, character in the board game Cluedo (4) |
|
|
| Fruity professor on board? (4) |
|
|
| Prune, pre-drying |
|
|
| Victoria, for instance (4) |
|
|
| Jack Horner's prize |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Mar 2024 |
| 'Victoria' is an old favourite variety of this (4) |
|
|
| Greengage-like fruit |
Puzzler Backwords |
22 Feb 2024 |
| Greengage, say (4) |
|
|
| Purple hue that's also a fruit |
Universal |
02 Feb 2024 |
| Fruit that's dried to make a prune |
|
|
| Fruit used to make Umeshu |
USA Today |
22 Jan 2024 |
| Fruit; possible killer? (4) |
|
|
| Purplish fruit |
Commuter |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Edible fruit of the tree Prunus domestica (4) |
|
|
| Highly desirable fruit (4) |
|
|
| Choice sweet? (4,7) |
|
|
| Finish off fleshy fruit |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Dec 2023 |
| Finish off fleshy fruit (4) |
|
|
| Fruit that flavours slivovitz (4) |
|
|
| For '15', the top of the tree |
|
|
| Li hing mui fruit |
USA Today |
25 Nov 2023 |
| Duff fruit? (4) |
|
|
| Fruit that's well-rounded for the most part (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
18 Nov 2023 |
| Fruit precisely gathered |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Sep 2023 |
| Purple fruit |
Newsday |
29 May 2023 |
| Fruit that becomes a prune |
Newsday |
15 May 2023 |
| Professor ___ (Clue suspect) |
Universal |
06 May 2023 |
| Damson-like fruit |
The Times Concise |
28 Apr 2023 |
| Purple shade |
Newsday |
30 Mar 2023 |
| Kind of job that's coveted |
New York Times |
02 Mar 2023 |
| Juicy purple-ish fruit |
|
|
| Prune, previously |
Universal |
11 Feb 2023 |
| __ pudding: Christmas treat |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2022 |
| Fruit used to make slivovitz |
New York Times |
20 Dec 2022 |
| Deep purple |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Dec 2022 |
| Fruit in the liqueurs maesil-ju and umeshu |
USA Today |
03 Dec 2022 |
| Fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Nov 2022 |
| Deep purple |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Nov 2022 |
| Short fat and very desirable! |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Oct 2022 |
| Tree line crossed by tailless feline |
|
|
| Prune-to-be |
USA Today |
18 Sep 2022 |
| Prune, before drying |
LA Times Daily |
18 Sep 2022 |
| Fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Aug 2022 |
| Shade of purple |
USA Today |
08 Aug 2022 |
| Prune-to-be, perhaps |
Premier Sunday |
07 Aug 2022 |
| What a prune once was |
Newsday |
02 Aug 2022 |
| Fruit that's sometimes dried and salted |
USA Today |
28 Jul 2022 |
| Type of cake with fruit served during Christmas |
|
|
| Highly desirable |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jun 2022 |
| Fruit dried to make a prune |
USA Today |
18 Jun 2022 |
| Fruit; choice |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Jun 2022 |
| Fruit; something desirable |
The Times Concise |
23 May 2022 |
| Choice, highly desirable |
The Guardian Speedy |
15 May 2022 |
| Horner's surprise |
LA Times Daily |
30 Mar 2022 |
| Horner's surprise |
The Washington Post |
30 Mar 2022 |
| A feather in one's cap finishing off claret |
Irish Times Crosaire |
25 Mar 2022 |
| Damson or Mirabelle |
The Washington Post |
18 Feb 2022 |
| Damson or Mirabelle |
LA Times Daily |
18 Feb 2022 |
| Prune, before drying |
Universal |
16 Feb 2022 |
| Purple fruit |
Family Time |
07 Feb 2022 |
| Almost round purple fruit |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Feb 2022 |
| Professor in a game |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Dec 2021 |
| Professor in Clue |
LA Times Daily |
22 Nov 2021 |
| A feather in one's cap finishing off claret |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Nov 2021 |
| Purple fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Oct 2021 |
| Christmas pudding fruit (rhymes with "rum") |
|
|
| Choice fruit |
|
|
| Fruit in the William Carlos Williams poem 'This Is Just to Say' |
New York Times |
18 Aug 2021 |
| Purple fruit |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Aug 2021 |
| Shade of purple |
New York Times |
01 Aug 2021 |
| Prune, pre-drying |
USA Today |
31 Jul 2021 |
| Purple shade |
Newsday |
29 Jul 2021 |
| Choice |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jul 2021 |
| Choice |
The Washington Post |
15 Jul 2021 |
| Prune, pre-drying |
USA Today |
10 Jul 2021 |
| Christmas pudding fruit |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Purple or reddish fleshy fruit |
|
|
| Fruit |
The Times Concise |
10 May 2021 |
| First-class |
The Times Concise |
02 May 2021 |
| Choice |
The Times Concise |
28 Mar 2021 |
| Soft mass, mostly something fruity |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Mar 2021 |
| Orchard fruit |
Newsday |
04 Mar 2021 |
| Christmas pudding fruit |
|
|
| Fruit that becomes a prune |
Newsday |
03 Nov 2020 |
| Sheer endless choice |
|
|
| Purple fruit |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Oct 2020 |
| Christmas pudding fruit |
LA Times Daily |
01 Oct 2020 |
| Christmas pudding fruit |
The Washington Post |
01 Oct 2020 |
| Fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Sep 2020 |
| Cherry ___ (tree) |
The Washington Post Sunday |
23 Aug 2020 |
| Fruit used to make saladitos |
USA Today |
19 Aug 2020 |
| Shade of purple |
USA Today |
15 Aug 2020 |
| Choice |
New York Times |
07 Aug 2020 |
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Fruit such as the damson |
USA Today |
02 Jul 2020 |
| Jack Horner's prize |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Jun 2020 |
| Fruit, fleshy, reduced |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Jun 2020 |
| Christmas pudding fruit |
Universal |
24 May 2020 |
| 'Clue' Professor |
Jonesin |
31 Mar 2020 |
| Professor in a library, perhaps |
New York Times |
25 Mar 2020 |
| Desirable, as a job |
New York Times |
13 Jan 2020 |
| Desirable, as a job |
|
|
| Highly desirable job |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Dec 2019 |
| At outset positive, look up manager's description of well-paid job |
|
|
| Shade close to mulberry |
Newsday |
21 Nov 2019 |
| A feather in one's cap finishing off claret |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Nov 2019 |
| Suspect professor left university during the afternoon |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Colour choice |
|
|
| Juicy reward |
Canadiana |
15 Jul 2019 |
| Very good fruit |
|
|
| Fat should be reduced slightly -- get fruit |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Jun 2019 |
| Cushy strip of feathers clipped |
|
|
| Coveted, as a position |
New York Times |
12 Jun 2019 |
| Choice left for all to see in May? |
|
|
| Fruit; something choice |
The Times Concise |
14 May 2019 |
| See 24-Across |
Premier Sunday |
12 May 2019 |
| Nickname of the writer P.G. Wodehouse |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
29 Apr 2019 |
| Purple or reddish fleshy fruit |
|
|
| Very good local Claret? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
30 Mar 2019 |
| Tomato in tomato paste |
USA Today |
19 Mar 2019 |
| Choice |
The Washington Post |
17 Feb 2019 |
| Choice |
LA Times Daily |
17 Feb 2019 |
| Deep Purple playing on German and Belgium borders |
Irish Times Crosaire |
06 Feb 2019 |
| The dried form of this fruit is called prune |
|
|
| Prune, when still on a tree |
|
|
| Fruit in duck sauce |
USA Today |
12 Jan 2019 |
| Choice |
|
|
| Coveted, as a position |
|
|
| Fruit in duck sauce |
|
|
| Tomato in tomato paste |
|
|
| Fruit in Jack Horner's pie |
USA Today |
05 Dec 2018 |
| Purple shade |
Newsday |
02 Dec 2018 |
| Highly desirable job |
USA Today |
22 Nov 2018 |
| Prunes are dried form of this fruit |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Fruit with a pit |
Universal |
12 Aug 2018 |
| Fruit that lends its name to a dark shade of purple |
|
|
| Duck sauce ingredient |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Aug 2018 |
| It may become a prune |
Premier Sunday |
15 Jul 2018 |
| Professor ___, character from the classic board game "Clue" who is played by Christopher Lloyd in the eponymous 1985 film |
|
|
| Damson, eg |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 May 2018 |
| Tailless cat eating large fruit |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 May 2018 |
| Cracking sound you'll hear |
|
|
| Pick fruit |
|
|
| Fruit in shapeless mass page brought forward |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Mar 2018 |
| Brandy flavoring |
Newsday |
08 Mar 2018 |
| Dark-red fruit |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jan 2018 |
| Fruit in Jack Horner's pie |
|
|
| Duck sauce ingredient |
|
|
| Highly desirable job |
|
|
| Fruit with a pit |
|
|
| Professor ___, Clue suspect |
|
|
| Bob's never-ending choice |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Dec 2017 |
| Juicy fruit with a pit |
New York Times |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Choice |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Nov 2017 |
| Professor ___ (suspect in Clue) |
USA Today |
09 Oct 2017 |
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Very desirable thing |
The Times Concise |
13 Jul 2017 |
| Jack Horner's pie extraction |
USA Today |
27 Jun 2017 |
| A juicy fruit |
Family Time |
19 Jun 2017 |
| Color close to puce |
New York Times |
27 May 2017 |
| Prune source |
Wall Street Journal |
15 May 2017 |
| Feather mostly purple |
|
|
| Reddish-purple colour |
The Times Concise |
24 Feb 2017 |
| Purple fruit |
Family Time |
13 Feb 2017 |
| Feather mostly purple |
|
|
| Choice, as a job |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Feb 2017 |
| Jack Horner's pie extraction |
|
|
| Color close to puce |
|
|
| Juicy fruit with a pit |
|
|
| Professor ___ (suspect in Clue) |
|
|
| Fruit that's highly desirable, exactly as reported |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Dec 2016 |
| Smooth-skinned fruit |
The Washington Post |
04 Nov 2016 |
| Dark reddish-purple colour: especially valued |
The Guardian Speedy |
31 Jul 2016 |
| A wonderful job on both sides of platinum album |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Choice fruit |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Jun 2016 |
| Purple shade |
New York Times |
16 Jun 2016 |
| Brandy-flavoring fruit |
The Washington Post |
12 Jun 2016 |
| Horner's surprise |
LA Times Daily |
08 May 2016 |
| Fruit that with age grows feathers |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Mar 2016 |
| Choice, as an assignment |
The Washington Post |
22 Mar 2016 |
| Deep purple |
Premier Sunday |
21 Feb 2016 |
| Deep purple |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Feb 2016 |
| Horner's find |
USA Today |
16 Feb 2016 |
| Purple fruit |
Premier Sunday |
31 Jan 2016 |
| First-class — fruit |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Jan 2016 |
| Horner's surprise |
|
|
| Purple shade |
|
|
| Horner's find |
|
|
| Professor ___, Clue suspect |
New York Times |
03 Nov 2015 |
| Fruit with a stone |
Universal |
27 Sep 2015 |
| Fruit of the genus Prunus |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Sep 2015 |
| Brandy flavor |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Sep 2015 |
| Pudding fruit |
USA Today |
21 Aug 2015 |
| Choice of lead, except for Bottom |
|
|
| Choice fruit for Pelham, I hear |
|
|
| Prune, previously |
Newsday |
19 May 2015 |
| Valued Horner's discovery |
|
|
| Horner's find |
LA Times Daily |
14 Jan 2015 |
| Horner's find |
|
|
| Pudding fruit |
|
|
| Professor ___, Clue suspect |
|
|
| Fruit with a stone |
|
|
| Prune, previously |
|
|
| Brandy flavor |
|
|
| Job everyone wants |
|
|
| Suspect in the game Clue |
|
|
| Pudding fruit |
|
|
| What a prune once was |
|
|
| "Live Through This (Fifteen Stories)" Mighty Joe ___ |
|
|
| Brilliant sound, but no bass |
|
|
| Reddish-purple |
|
|
| Coveted assignment |
|
|
| Tempting perquisite |
|
|
| Purple fruit |
|
|
| Prize fruit |
|
|
| Clue professor |
|
|
| Jack Horner's find |
|
|
| Fruit for a Christmas pudding |
|
|
| "Clue" professor |
|
|
| Little Jack Horner's haul |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Purple fruit |
|
|
| "Clue" professor |
|
|
| Coveted prize |
|
|
| Choice job |
|
|
| Fellow suspect of Mustard |
|
|
| Fellow suspect of Mustard |
|
|
| "Clue" surname |
|
|
| Jack Horner's reward |
|
|
| Clue professor |
|
|
| Juicy fruit |
|
|
| Jack Horner's treasure |
|
|
| Kind of pudding |
|
|
| Reddish purple |
|
|
| Juicy fruit |
|
|
| Sweet bonus |
|
|
| Jack Horner's prize |
|
|
| Prune-to-be |
|
|
| Choice, as an assignment |
|
|
| Deep purple |
|
|
| Fruit high in antioxidants |
|
|
| Extremely desirable |
|
|
| Prized |
|
|
| Jack Horner's reward |
|
|
| Prized |
|
|
| Extremely desirable |
|
|
| Horner's pie extraction |
|
|
| Desirable reward |
|
|
| Jack Horner's prize |
|
|
| Clue academic |
|
|
| Desirable reward |
|
|
| Professor played by Christopher Lloyd |
|
|
| Clue academic |
|
|
| Horner's treasure |
|
|
| Prune beginning |
|
|
| Windfall |
|
|
| Horner's treasure |
|
|
| Nice perk |
|
|
| Coveted |
|
|
| Horner's find |
|
|
| Horner's find |
|
|
| Choice assignment |
|
|
| Professor in Clue |
|
|
| Tidbit in Jack Horner's pie |
|
|
| Choice assignment |
|
|
| Particularly desirable |
|
|
| Professor in Clue |
|
|
| Professor in Clue |
|
|
| Treat for Horner? |
|
|
| Horner's treat |
|
|
| Brandy flavor |
|
|
| Choice assignment |
|
|
| Raki fruit |
|
|
| Little Jack Horner's discovery |
|
|
| Horner's discovery |
|
|
| Pudding fruit |
|
|
| "Clue" Professor |
|
|
| Prune, formerly |
|
|
| Cushy job |
|
|
| Jack Horner's find |
|
|
| Windfall |
|
|
| Jack Horner's fruit |
|
|
| Deep purple |
|
|
| Jack Horner's find |
|
|
| Jack Horner's fruit |
|
|
| Choice, as an assignment |
|
|
| Choice offering |
|
|
| Choice |
|
|
| "Clue" professor |
|
|
| Coveted prize |
|
|
| Summer fruit |
|
|
| "Clue" professor |
|
|
| Jack Horner's treat |
|
|
| Deep purple |
|
|
| Desirable thing |
|
|
| Tomato variety |
|
|
| Pudding ingredient |
|
|
| Prune, before drying |
|
|
| Choice assignment |
|
|
| Enviable assignment |
|
|
| Proof of the pudding? |
|
|
| Fellow suspect with Mustard and Green |
|
|
| Prized |
|
|
| Type of assignment |
|
|
| Prune-to-be, perhaps |
|
|
| Brandy base |
|
|
| Horner's fruit |
|
|
| Jack Horner's find |
|
|
| Jack Horner's find |
|
|
| Damson |
|
|
| Pick of the lot |
|
|
| Jack Horner's discovery |
|
|
| Horner find |
|
|
| Juicy job |
|
|
| Desirable job |
|
|
| Desirable thing |
|
|
| Desirable position |
|
|
| Choice |
|
|
| Purple color |
|
|
| Jack Horner's find |
|
|
| Kind of pudding |
|
|
| Purple hue |
|
|
| Jack Horner's prize |
|
|
| Horner's surprise |
|
|
| Horner's discovery |
|
|
| Prune, formerly |
|
|
| Reddish purple |
|
|
| Cushy, as a job |
|
|
| Horner's find |
|
|
| Kind of tomato |
|
|
| High-paying easy job |
|
|
| Jack Horner's surprise |
|
|
| Deep purple |
|
|
| Prize |
|
|
| Prized thing |
|
|
| Horner's capture |
|
|
| Horner's reward |
|
|
| Unwrinkled prune |
|
|
| Smooth-skinned fruit |
|
|
| Damson, e.g. |
|
|
| Fleshy fruit |
|
|
| Prune's source |
|
|
| Succulent fruit |
|
|
| Something very good |
|
|
| Little Jack's prize |
|
|
| Horner's prize |
|
|
| Choice thing |
|
|
| " . . . and pulled out a ___" |
|
|
| Political fruit |
|
|
| Political tidbit |
|
|
| Windfall. |
|
|
| Kind of pudding. |
|
|
| Bluish red. |
|
|
| Greengage. |
|
|
| Choice object. |
|
|
| Something choice. |
|
|
| Lucrative political appointment. |
|
|
| Choice thing. |
|
|
| ___ pudding. |
|
|
| Political prize. |
|
|
| Choice appointment. |
|
|
| Prize. |
|
|
| Blue-red color. |
|
|
| Blue-red. |
|
|
| Clue suspect |
|
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| Choice job. |
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| Damson. |
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| Dark bluish-red color. |
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| Dark bluish-red. |
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| Choice or desirable object. |
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| Bluish-red color. |
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| Fruit tree. |
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