| TATTIES | Starchy tubers up north - the ropiest, almost |
| ASPIRETO | Aim for a scheme, the ropiest of answers! (6,2) |
| MAYONNAISE | Dressing old tuber up Annie's mashed (10) |
| INHAND | Up north, the red digits under one's control (2,4) |
| TBAR | Up north: the pub that provides lift? |
| SAGAS | Stories from the north - the same from the south? (5) |
| SALEPRICE | One's discounted starchy tubers and starchy grass |
| OCAS | Starchy tubers from the tropics |
| FELLWALKER | He perambulates up and down in the North, the ruthless pedestrian (4-6) |
| HEAVEN | Haul to the north - the best place (6) |
| TUXEDOS | From the north the wife does differing jackets |
| DOWNSTREAM | Consumes, in the north, the headless fish where it was caught? |
| TARO | Food plant of the arum family with starchy tubers, popular in Pacific Islands (4) |
| YAM | Any of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for their edible starchy tubers (3) |
| TATERS | Heartlessly shreds starchy tubers |
| YAMS | Edible starchy tubers (4) |
| POTATOES | Post office take away digits for starchy tubers (8) |
| TRUISM | In the north the game is supported by many and is commonplace (6) |
| INUIT | What is an indigenous group from the far north, the correct term for Eskimo? (5) |
| MAGNETIC | ____ north, the direction in which the top end of a compass needle will point (8) |