| WALNUTS | Trees with their roots in Jove's acorns! (7) |
| WALNUT | A wrinkled shelled edible juglandaceous kernel or "Jove's acorn" that not only looks like a brain but is nutritiously good for it too (6) |
| ARE | Celebrities trace their roots in Who Do You Think You ---?) |
| SWEDES | They have their roots in Scandinavia (6) |
| INDIA | Hinduism and Buddhism have their roots in this Asian country |
| 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) |
| HOEDOWN | A lively folk dance/party with its roots in America's rural past; or, said shindig's associated country music (7) |
| AFGHANI | A key hang-out for one having roots in Asia (7) |
| TORSION | Roots in ground, twisting (7) |
| TURNIPS | Roots in capsized grog bottles (7) |
| ORIGINS | Beginnings or roots in good Irish National schools (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) |
| RISOTTO | Italian dish — it's roots in a stew |
| IMPULSE | Rogue application takes root in laptop's drive (7) |
| RHIZOID | A hairlike root in mosses and other lower plants (7) |
| ONTARIO | Floating root in a lake (7) |
| MILLION | Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome (7) |
| RADICLE | Root in the end for a rising hero |
| GINSENG | Medicinal root in spirits (English) |
| SOIL | Plants need me to spread their roots and eat theirfood. |
