| DOORTODOOR | Salesman type is a dodo at root, or similar! (4,2,4) |
| SIRENIAN | Take warning, Ian - it's the dugong or something similar! (8) |
| ALIKE | ... taking a fancy to similar! (5) |
| BALDERDASH | Rot or blight at root of big tree (10) |
| AUTOMOTIVE | Car's purpose -- at root to do with self, in the first place (10) |
| TREETOMATO | Curiously meet at root of tamarillo (4,6) |
| MINISERIES | "Roots" or "Sharp Objects," e.g. |
| VEGETABLES | Roots or greens |
| SUNKEN | A non-buoyant person or thing; a doughnut in the US; a mistletoe root; or, a weight for carrying a fishing-line beneath the water's surface (6) |
| SLIP | Part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting (4) |
| REDMULLET | Ginger-haired type is a bit of a goat in the sea (3,6) |
| ARROW | A "sagitta", such as that inflicting a poisonous wound said to be healed with the root or starch of "herbe aux fleches"; or, a sugarcane tassel (5) |
| TUBER | What is a swollen underground root or stem such as a potato? (5) |
| HAIR | It has a root ... or can be found on a root |
| NUN | Religious type is a bit of conundrum, either way (3) |
| KAYAK | What boat type is a palindrome? (5) |
| REENTRY | Space vehicle type is a screen trying to break out (2,5) |
| MALAYSIAN | Eastern type is a layman maybe (9) |
| BIGHORN | Left adrift, Bligh -- or Christian, at root one of the flock? (7) |
| POUNDEDTHEBEET | Had a violent confrontation doing one's rounds at root camp? |
