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The Clue

Blackthorns (5 letter answer)

The Answer

SLOES

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Notes

The answer SLOES is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.

Related Clues

Astringent fruit
Black haws
Blackthorn fruits
Blackthorn pickings
Blackthorn shrubs
Fruit of the blackthorn
Gin berries
Gin flavorers
Kin of bullaces
Plum relatives
Plumlike fruits
Some plums
Sour fruit
Tart fruits
Tartish plums
Wild plums
Dark purple fruits
Dark-skinned fruit
Prunus spinosa plants
Tart, plumlike fruits
Fruit related to cherry plums

Definition

SLOE as a noun:

1. (Allegheny plum, Alleghany plum, sloe, Prunus alleghaniensis) = wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
2. (blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa) = a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
3. small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush