| ERGOT | Rot, for example, produces grain disease (5) |
| SLIGO | Irish county town... produces grain initially mixed with soil (5) |
| SOFTROCK | Soapstone, for example, produces melodic music (4,4) |
| VINE | Climbing stem that, for example, produces grapes as its fruit (4) |
| NEGLIGE | Nigel for example produces a lady's casual wear |
| SMUT | Cereal grain disease |
| MAIZE | This consists of tortuous ways, we hear, to produce grain (5) |
| WHEAT | When bird goes away, raise temperature and produce grain (5) |
| ANAPAEST | Foot rot for a peasant? (8) |
| BALTIMORE | I blame rot for the condition this city's in (9) |
| GOURMET | More gut-rot for foodie (7) |
| GOOF | A lot of rot for foolish person (4) |
| DECAYS | Rots for a month, say, badly (6) |
| BLARE | Siren's call is for beer : heartless rot! (5) |
| TOMMY | Gunman responsible for some rot (5) |
| SORTS | Arranges for nasty rot to be confined to smalls (5) |
| BULBS | Check for rot on stored tubers and ___ (5) |
| OXTER | Dialect for the armpit; ex-rot (anag.) (5) |
| BROWN | ___ rot: a spreading fungal rot in the fruits of apples, pears, plums, cherries and others (5) |
| ALDER | Tree whose wood is used for bridges because it resists underwater rot (5) |