Possible Clues:

• The little mother to either side of her, you may take it as read, by the sound of it
• Thomas has a temperature? Nothing but fruit
• It used to be call a love-apple
• A motto, strangely, for this fruit
• A motto, oddly, for this fruit
• Fruit for salad
• That's ruddy well to either side of Mother
• If it's to either side of Mother, it has her in the red
• Glossy red fruit eaten as vegetable
• As well as being around the rug, it's like the start of 28 across