| Fresh alternative | 17 |
| Type of foods or assets | 23 |
| Ready to skate on | 17 |
| Like TV dinners | 15 |
| Like some wages and wastelands | 30 |
| Like some assets and smiles | 27 |
| Like sherbets | 13 |
| It might be covered by an umbrella | 34 |
| Birds Eye offering | 18 |
| Swanson line | 12 |
| Refrigerated supermarket aisle | 30 |
| Grocery aisle | 13 |
| Clarence BirdsEYE's innovation | 34 |
| In a blue state? | 16 |
| Parsimonious | 12 |
| Sparing | 7 |
| Like Scrooge | 12 |
| Skimping and scrimping | 22 |
| Saving | 6 |
| Careful with spending | 21 |
| Careful about spending | 22 |
| Lunchbox item | 13 |
| Apples and oranges | 18 |
| Product | 7 |
| Dieter's dessert | 20 |
| Type of cocktail | 16 |
| Still-life subject, often | 25 |
| Pear, e.g. | 10 |
| Part of a balanced diet | 23 |
| It may be forbidden | 19 |
| Compote ingredient | 18 |
| Some produce | 12 |
| Part of a well-balanced diet | 28 |
| A couple of dates, say | 22 |
| _____ fly | 9 |
| Yield edible things, perhaps, as a plant | 40 |
| Tomato or green pepper | 22 |
| Still life subject, perhaps | 27 |
| Slot machine symbols, often | 27 |
| Pie filling, often | 18 |
| Pie contents, often | 19 |
| Peach, plum, or pear | 20 |
| Part of some tarts | 18 |
| Papaya or muskmelon | 19 |
| One is hidden in each of this puzzle's four longest answers | 63 |
| Mango and guava | 15 |
| Litchi or loquat | 16 |
| Kumquats, uglis and such | 24 |
| Kumquats and uglis | 18 |
| Kind of punch or salad | 22 |
| Jujube or loquat | 16 |
| It's sometimes forbidden | 28 |
| Frequent slot-machine display | 29 |
| Date, e.g. | 10 |
| Common dessert ingredient | 25 |
| Colorful slot machine symbol | 28 |
| Cocktail ingredients? | 21 |
| Avocado or tomato, botanically speaking | 39 |
| Apples, but not IBM's | 25 |
| Apple or banana fly? | 20 |
| A different one is hidden in each of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 76 |
| --- cocktail | 12 |
| __ basket | 9 |
| "America the Beautiful" adjective | 43 |
| Not barren | 10 |
| Like the plain in "America the Beautiful" | 51 |
| Like some plains | 16 |
| Like orchard trees | 18 |
| Dowdy one | 9 |
| Dowdy dresser | 13 |
| Dowdy type | 10 |
| Dowdy person | 12 |
| She's no fashion plate | 26 |
| Not a stylish dresser | 21 |
| Dowdy woman | 11 |
| Dowdy sort | 10 |
| Dowdy dowager | 13 |
| Dowdy dame | 10 |
| Young salmon | 12 |
| Sauté | 8 |
| Brown | 5 |
| Make tempura | 12 |
| Suffer from the heat | 20 |
| English dramatist | 17 |
| Cook in oil | 11 |
| Young fish | 10 |
| Use a wok | 9 |
| Feel the heat | 13 |
| One way to cook chicken | 23 |
| Fingerlings | 11 |
| Cook in deep fat | 16 |
| Cook bacon | 10 |
| Word with deep or stir | 22 |
| Small ones | 10 |
| Prepare in a pan | 16 |
| Go beyond tanning | 17 |
| Fish cookout | 12 |
| Cook, as bacon | 14 |
| Cook in grease | 14 |
| Cook in a wok | 13 |