| RHIZOID | A hairlike root in mosses and other lower plants (7) |
| LOWER | - plants; non-vascular organisms such as algae, mosses and liverworts (5) |
| GEMMA | Reproductive structure in mosses |
| FUNGI | Kingdom of lower plants |
| ROOTS | Lower plant structures |
| TUNDRAS | Biomes with vegetation composed of dwarfed shrubs, lichens and mosses (7) |
| MIMICRY | With its root in "pantomime", word for the act, practice or skill of aping, copying, imitating or mocking by a human, insect or other species (7) |
| ONTARIO | Floating root in a lake (7) |
| SCRAWLS | Puts down poorly fawn in middle of mosses |
| PEATBOG | Wetland habitat, rich in sphagnum mosses (4, 3) |
| LICHENS | Composite organisms, such as some mosses (7) |
| IMPULSE | Rogue application takes root in laptop's drive (7) |
| RADICLE | Root in the end for a rising hero |
| RISOTTO | Rice dish has its root in cooking (7) |
| MILLION | Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome (7) |
| MARSHES | Mosses |
| GINSENG | Medicinal root in spirits (English) |
| STEMS | Basic units of reproduction of plants other than ferns, mosses, liverworts and horsetails (5) |
| STUMPS | Often providing a valuable habitat for woodpeckers, hibernating hedgehogs and toads, minibeasts, fungi, ferns, lichens and mosses, the remains of felled or fallen trees (6) |
| VILLUS | A minute hairlike projection on a mucous membrane (6) |
