| SALSIFY | Plant also called vegetable oyster with a long white edible taproot |
| SAFETYBIVALVE | Oyster with a childproof shell? |
| MOTHEROFPEARL | What an oyster with maternal instincts eventually becomes? (6-2-5) |
| YAMBEAN | Vine with an edible taproot, also called jicama (3,4) |
| KOMONDOR | A powerful dog with a long white coat in woolly or matted form used to guard livestock (8) |
| ENGLISHSETTER | Dog with a long white coat (7,6) |
| CARROT | Plant of the parsley family with an edible taproot |
| EMPEROR | Small South American monkey with a long white moustache reminiscent of Germany's Wilhelm II, the ... |
| TURNIP | A root vegetable with a white, tapering taproot (6) |
| BEETROOT | Edible taproot of Beta vulgaris with pink/purple flesh (8) |
| CAULIFLOWER | Variety of cabbage with with a white edible section (11) |
| MOOLI | A long white carrot-shaped root vegetable from east Africa (5) |
| ENOKI | White edible mushroom with a small cap and long slender stem, native to Japan; Flammulina velutipes (5) |
| BEARD | Face whiskers. (Santa has a long white one) (5) |
| ALB | A long white linen vestment worn by priests |
| POMATO | Grafted plant with red and white edibles |
| TARO | Taproot, once out of pot, is edible stuff (4) |
| CURRANT | Any of several garden ribes bearing strigs of small tart black, red or white edible berries; or, each of a multitude of raisin-like dried grapes used to flavour buns, garibaldis, puddings, rock cakes, |
| HORSERADISH | Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its white edible root (11) |
| ECRU | Count contents of some oysters with edges trimmed (4) |
