Beginning to wonder if simple is a herb. It was in one of my books. I looked up Peter in the Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary-- Saw "simple" then looked up simple and got "rustic" Put two and two together -probably got five!! Can anyone confirm simple is a herb, please?
I may be way off the mark here, but these were my thoughts.
SP = for Simple Peter
couple that with something that "Peters OUT"
to "perhaps" get SPROUT ?
Well done NazNomad. I saw quince when looking up Peter in my book but I'm afraid I had forgotten about Peter in Shakespeare- more than sixty years since I read that play!!