| TAPROOTS | Parts too difficult to dig up? (8) |
| POTROAST | Meal parts too well cooked? |
| FERRET | Iron over mistake and initial trouble or dig up? (6) |
| SPIT | Strip of land, double the amount you can dig up? |
| MADRIGALS | Gil and those dramas! We get them in parts, too! |
| UNEARTH | Something a hunter can dig up? (7) |
| DISINTER | Stride in to dig up a body (8) |
| DICTATES | Orders to dig up park near academy and institute surrounded by university (8) |
| TRENCHES | Use some large plates, right away, to dig up defences on the front line (8) |
| UNSOLVED | Too difficult, this clue will be (8) |
| TUCKAHOE | Talking of food, use tool to dig up edible tuber |
| EFFODERE | To dig up - unearth and exhume are calque translations |
| SALTMINE | Wherein to dig up something tasty (4,4) |
| CLUELESS | This kind of crossword's too difficult? They haven't a notion |
| PETRONASTOWERS | Warns, "Too difficult to crack safes in skyscrapers" (8,6) |
| TOOHARDBASKET | Hot skateboard was too difficult to handle (3-4,6) |
| ABOVEONESHEAD | Perhaps where hair is being too difficult to comprehend (5,4,4) |
| OVERONESHEAD | Where cap goes, it is too difficult to understand (4,4,4) |
| UNPRONOUNCEABLE | Too difficult to say |
| INSUPPORTABLE | Too difficult to endure (13) |
