State fruit – Tomato (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Visual Description: You can’t have your tomato and eat it too.
VEOCT = COVET, NIXTO = TOXIN, WARLPS = SPRAWL, VODURE = DEVOUR — Giving us: OETTINSPLDEOR
Clue/Question: She couldn’t eat her prize tomato because it had been – – –
Kagome started as a tomato grower, and its main products are still based on tomatoes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Answer: SPOILED ROTTEN
(Too many people today do not understand the have/keep concept, so the old expression does not resonate with them. There are no new clue words today, but three of the jumbles seem to be new. I know we’ve seen “nixto” before. I was able to see all the clue words immediately. I think switching the order of the clue words would have made for a more challenging answer letter layout. Especially the two six-letter words. SPLD is very close to SPOILED. The cartoon did a good job of setting up the gag. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Unclerave's Wordy Weblog 
What pretty tomatoes! Nothing better than a mater sandwich with Dukes!! Grand puzzler!! But I would have eaten that tomato long before it spoiled!