Cryptic food and drink

Herbie said:
Looks like I need to brush up on cricketing terms :happy:
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Easiest thing is to look up a list of frequently used cryptic crossword abbreviations - its not only cricket terms that get used. I'm no expert on this. I have 'o = duck', committed to memory but often fail to recognise other abbreviations.
 
Pretty much any word that indicates confusion, jumble, mix, etc. tends to suggest an anagram or partial anagram. One that comes up more and more lately is "pants", indicative of rubbish rather than something you wear.
 
Clue explanation.

Fruit fermented German duck pâté (11)

This is a simple anagram. The anagram indicator is 'fermented'. There are lots of words that can indicate an anagram as @duck says above.

The answer is a fruit made up of the letters in German pâté (plus 'o' - which is indicated by the cricket term 'duck').

So can you make a fruit from those 11 letters?

pomegranate
 
Morning Glory said:
There is only one tricky thing about the clue if you don't know it: 'duck' = O. Otherwise the clue a simple anagram. I can't even remember why duck = O, but it might be cricket again.
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I read somewhere that duck was short for duck egg. But that seems a bit of a stretch to me.
 
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