| POTATION | Tuber, I held, needs nitrogen and drink |
| LEAN | Infertile pasture needs nitrogen (4) |
| BULIMIA | Short tuber I intend to bring back for disorder (7) |
| REBUTIA | Genus of 'barrel' cactus - a tuber I dispersed (7) |
| DISMAY | Edible tubers I had turned down in consternation |
| TRAVERSED | Crooked advertiser -- I held out and negotiated (9) |
| SHIELD | Capriciously, I held child's ear and arms here (8,6) |
| HERALDIC | Capriciously, I held child's ear and arms here (8,6) |
| WOEISME | Without girl I held. I'm so sad! (3,2,2) |
| PLAINTIVE | Flower I held, I have to be doleful (9) |
| TASMANIAN | Adult male and I held by one aggravated islander? (9) |
| INDIGO | I add nitrogen and use a spade round plant |
| IGNORANT | Lacking knowledge, I concede, about nitrogen and oxygen (8) |
| NIACIN | Nitrogen and iodine I can transform into a vitamin (6) |
| BIATHLON | Cross-country event I held in British and Irish territory getting curtailed |
| HEIDELBERG | I held grebe had flown to old university (10) |
| EDGEHILL | I held leg, wounded in battle (8) |
| MEDIAL | Gong I held in the middle (6) |
| MONIKER | Handle tailless animal I held above river |
| PASTICHE | Work of art is finished - revolutionary, I held |
