Related Clues:

• In time to be a sailor at last
• Like clams during winter
• Like the freshest fruit
• Best time to eat oranges is during period when football is played
• On heat, ready to eat
• (Of female mammal) ready to mate
• Pub sandwiches extremely stale, like nothing's readily available
• Available pub -- marine therefore enters it
• Popular flavour available
• Ripe and ready to be spiced up?
• Marine's passing through party to mellow
• Like fruit sold at markets
• When some seafood is available
• Like strawberries during the summer and apples during the fall
• Available at the farmers' market, say