| TORSION | Roots in ground, twisting (7) |
| MEDLEYS | Word, with roots in hand-to-hand combat and also variegated/pied cloths, for mixtures or olios, whether flavours, fruits, music, swimming strokes or vegetables in Scotch broths (7) |
| WALNUTS | Trees with their roots in Jove's acorns! (7) |
| TURNIPS | Roots in capsized grog bottles (7) |
| ORIGINS | Beginnings or roots in good Irish National schools (7) |
| AFGHANI | A key hang-out for one having roots in Asia (7) |
| HOEDOWN | A lively folk dance/party with its roots in America's rural past; or, said shindig's associated country music (7) |
| RISOTTO | Italian dish — it's roots in a stew |
| IMPULSE | Rogue application takes root in laptop's drive (7) |
| ONTARIO | Floating root in a lake (7) |
| RHIZOID | A hairlike root in mosses and other lower plants (7) |
| MILLION | Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome (7) |
| MIMICRY | With its root in "pantomime", word for the act, practice or skill of aping, copying, imitating or mocking by a human, insect or other species (7) |
| RADICLE | Root in the end for a rising hero |
| GINSENG | Medicinal root in spirits (English) |
| BLACKBIRD | They were taken to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. The female of this species makes a nest of plant stems, grass, twigs, and roots in the shape of a cup. In the New World, the name of t |
| EXTRACTION | Film industry worker takes legal proceedings having lost the lead in Roots, in the original sense (10) |
| GRAPEFRUIT | Foxtrot in a cracking guitar arrangement, one having its roots in Barbados |
| MACARONI | This word is borrowed from a regional Tuscan Italian word meaning "tubular pasta" (with an earlier meaning of "stuffed pasta of various shapes"). It may have deeper roots in Greek. In the 18th century |
| LINCOLNSBIRTHDAY | Celebration with roots in then-Hardin County, Ky. |
