| STIRPE | Lit., by root therefore, by family line: radice, genere |
| FRUIT | Bug takes top off leaf and root, so to speak, of tangelo (4,5) |
| UGLI | Bug takes top off leaf and root, so to speak, of tangelo (4,5) |
| CHESTER | English city street engulfed by root (7) |
| LUPI | Ferae canino genere, agnis minitantes |
| PUTABATIS | You lot were thinking (ex radice, to cleanse, arrange!) |
| EXCELLENS | Outstanding: "Brutus ... noster ____ omni genere laudis" Cicero Academica 1.3 |
| TRE | Radice quadrata di nove |
| TEAM | Group supported by roots? |
| LONESOME | At fifty one, therefore, by myself and melancholy |
| SORE | Irritated, therefore, by the note (4) |
| SOB | Cry, therefore, by the beginning (3) |
| CAVEAE | Lit., holes or hollows so by extension cages and coops |
| CARINAE | Lit. keels, so by metonomy ships themselves and nutshells |
| BLOOD | Family line in dismissive comment by daughter |
| NAVE | Area lit by clerestory windows |
| ONIONS | Lit by current, Edison half designed bulbs (6) |
| LUAU | Party often lit by tiki torches |
| CELTIC | Northern side of church's poorly lit by candles, primarily (6) |
| AFLARE | Glowing, as if lit by fire |
