Nut Alas Not Exactly Fruit Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine • dried seedless grape
	35%	7		Group of woody plants characterized by their fruit being a nut or winged nut
	noun • an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae
	34%	10		Alas
	adverb • in an unfortunate or deplorable manner

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The Guardian Cryptic11 May 2011	Down 5
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1	Fruit and nut, alas, all mixed up together The Guardian Cryptic - 27 Jan 2003	The Guardian Cryptic / 27 Jan 2003
2	Fruit is typically a nut or a nut-like achene
3	Group of woody plants characterized by their fruit being a nut or winged nut
4	Initially intelligent? No, alas, not exactly! Telegraph Cryptic - 25 May 2023	Telegraph Cryptic / 25 May 2023
5	Nut for a nut weevil New York Times - 02 Jun 2002	New York Times / 02 Jun 2002
6	Word, related to the name of a cereal crop and of a unit of land, for any wild fruit or nut originally, later a specific cupule-borne forest fruit, squirrel snack and chief form of pig mast from which an oak tree grows Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 06 May 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 06 May 2023
7	Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" New York Times - 30 Mar 2013	New York Times / 30 Mar 2013