| ALVEOLI | Sockets or cavities in which the roots of the teeth are embedded. (7) |
| GANG | Word for a set of people or things which go together, such as a ship's crew; a group of labourers, sockets or tools; or, a band of children, criminals or delinquents (4) |
| GUM | The firm flesh around the roots of the teeth |
| GUMS | Firm areas of flesh around the roots of the teeth (4) |
| JAW | Bone that the teeth are anchored in |
| ALIZARIN | Red colour found in the roots of the madder plant (8) |
| PITS | Holes or cavities in the ground |
| CYSTS | Thin-walled hollow organs or cavities in plants (and animals), containing liquid secretions (5) |
| ANTRA | Natural hollows or cavities in bones |
| SINUSES | Air-filled cavities in the bones of the skull that can be frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid or maxillary (7) |
| TAPIOCA | Grainy starch obtained from the root of the cassava plant, used as a thickener in puddings, soups etc. (7) |
| TONSILS | Lymph glands at the root of the tongue (7) |
| SINUOUS | Air cavities in the cranial bones that open into the nasal passages (7) |
| DENTINE | Substance of which teeth are mainly composed (7) |
| HOLLOWS | Small depressions or cavities (7) |
| DENTIST | One who gets to the root of the problem? |
| TACITUS | Historian understood the roots of uprisings, see (7) |
| RATCHET | The cart collapses: one's teeth are set on edge! |
| TUBER | Underground type of stem or rhizome in the form of a potato, Jerusalem artichoke, cassava, taro or yam; or, the root of the dahlia (5) |
| AIRSACS | Cavities in a bird's body |
