| CARROTTOP | Ginger root with cream (6,3) |
| ERR | Slip up, using King Edward with ginger root (3) |
| PILL | Ginger root serving? |
| RACE | Groove for ball bearings; millrun; speed contest; or, a ginger root (4) |
| PRESSE | Word, from the French for "hurried, squeezed for time", for a drink of juice squeezed from an apple, elderflower, ginger root, lemon or lime (6) |
| ASARUMS | Was a rum shrub containing ginger roots? |
| STADE | ___ was a sprint of approximately 200 yards in the Ancient Olympics. Fill in the blank with a word that shares its root with an English term that refers to a sports arena. |
| PANTRY | From French for "bread", word for a larder-like food cupboard and one that shares its root with "companion", or "a person one eats bread with" (6) |
| WASH | Word, sharing its root with "water", for a cleanse/rinse with said H2O (4) |
| ORRIS | Iris root with a violet-like smell (5) |
| GINSENG | Root with therapeutic properties (7) |
| TIEDDOWN | Root with opening can get bound (4,4) |
| ELIHU | Root with a Peace Prize |
| YARD | Outdoor area that shares an etymological root with "garden" |
| TARO | Root with purple-specked flesh |
| RADISH | Root with red skin |
| XENON | This noble gas shares its word root with a Greek word meaning 'foreign' (5) |
| HIDE | Word for an animal's pelt that shares a prehistoric root with the Latin cutis; an Old English unit of land sufficient to support a household; or, a birdwatcher's or gamekeeper's camouflaged shelter in |
| YEAR | Sharing a root with the Greek for "season", a unit of time upon which the calendar or an almanac is based (4) |
| ZEAL | Sharing its root with "jealousy", a word for intense or fanatical ardour; or, a herd or "dazzle" of zebra (4) |
