Saturday Times Jumbo Quick 875

[fooxy]

can anyone help? my mind has gone

22d taken for granted (8) ?r?s???d
31d fruit-eating (12) ???c?i?o????
46d make use of (one's financial resources) (3,4) d?p????

[boxtops]

22 - presumed
31 - just answered on another thread as frugivorous
46 - dip into ?

[Mamyalynne]

22 presumed
31 fructivorous

[fooxy]

thank you boxtops

[novalis]

fructivorous ( Sorry, Boxtops, corrected myself on other thread )

[fooxy]

thanks mamyalynne

[boxtops]

mamya you are right matron, fruct not frug - fructivorous

[Mamyalynne]

Did not know novalis had already answered it.

[Sea Devil]

I thought that 'frugivorous' was 'fruit-eating; whereas 'fructivorous' was fruit producing. Which would mean that the wrong answer fits the question.

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.wordnik.com/words/fructivorous