Irish Mail on Sunday No 789

[birdie05]

Need help with the following clues please.
11A:Crafty, perceptive A?T??? (6)
3D: 24 Down eaten as a vegetable S?E?U?O?N (9) (Answer to 24D is Kale)
Thanks in advance.

[writesbad]

11a astute

[shooty]

sweet corn ?

[factor-fiction]

sweetcorn?

[writesbad]

3d sweetcorn

[birdie05]

Thank you all very much for your help.

[shooty]

Is sweetcorn kale ?

[Psybbo]

artful?

[Baldric]

It's Maize isn't it?

[cupid04]

amazing, you got it, lol!!^^

[birdie05]

Kale is cabbage. Don't understand the connection between the two.

[shooty]

me neither. something don't look right.
what is the Q to 24d ?

[birdie05]

Green vegetable with curly crinkled leaves

[Psybbo]

cupid, who?

[cupid04]

what have you done with sibton's cat?

[shooty]

RAPE is a variant of KALE. if the A and E are in the same place, this may be a possible answer to 24d. although it still does not make sense to me with sweet corn. I also believe sweet corn is two words rather than one. Maybe someone else can enlighten us.

[shooty]

'sweetwort' would fit if the U and N are incorrect ?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Sweetwort