| ROOT | A plant's "anchor" known in its edible form as a carrot, parsnip, radish, swede or turnip, among other things; or, a word's etymon (4) |
| BERMAN | ESPN anchor known for conferring silly nicknames |
| ROOTCROP | Eg, swede or turnip |
| ROOTS | A plant's anchor in the soil (5) |
| ROOTLET | Small branch of a plant's "anchor" (7) |
| SCANDINAVIAN | Swede or Dane |
| LEAF | A folio of a book; a botanical structure known in its embryonic form as a cotyledon; or, gold in the form of foil, used in gilding (4) |
| WATER | The brilliance, lustre and purity of a diamond, such as one in the first degree, considered flawless; a wavy sheen on moire silk or taffeta; or, a liquid compound known in its solid or gaseous state a |
| SCULPTURE | Work of art such as a bronze, known in its preliminary wax or clay form as a maquette (9) |
| SKEWER | An X-ray attack in chess; or, a metal brochette, known in its miniature form as a cocktail stick (6) |
| GLOVE | Known in its fingerless form as a mitten, a garment worn in pairs for warmth, gardening, sports including boxing or handling hot ovenware (5) |
| IRIS | Mr and Mrs Herbert Beerbohm Tree's bob-haired bohemian daughter, who shared her name with a purple flower or yellow flag known in its stylised form as a fleur-de-lis (4) |
| CRUCIFER | From the Latin for "cross", a person carrying a small rood in a church procession; or, a brassica with four-petalled cross-shaped flowers, such as broccoli, cabbage, collard, kale, mustard or turnip ( |
| VENUS | Celebrated in her earliest form as a spirit of kitchen gardens, a Roman love goddess whose name was given to the planet also known as Hesperus or the morning star (5) |
| TURKISHDELIGHT | Icing sugar-dusted jelly-like confection or sweetmeat flavoured variously with attar, bergamot, lemon, mint, orange-flower water or other flower essence and known in its native country as lokum (7,7) |
| RAPID | First word of the period of sleep known in its abbreviated form as REM (5) |
| SHAW | Related to "beard, rug, shag", an old or dialect word for a copse, small wood or thicket; or, the leaves and tops of a potato or turnip plant (4) |
| PROPANE | Colourless, odourless flammable alkane occurring in petroleum, used in liquefied form as a fuel (7) |
| ELIZA | Pygmalion character who became better known in its film adaptation My Fair Lady, ... Doolittle |
| LILY | Flower represented in a stylised form as a fleur-de-lis (4) |
