| TUBE | Underground, most of root vegetable |
| GANGSTERSMOLE | Mobster's gal who stays underground most of the time? |
| SWEDE | One of the types of root vegetable used to make the filling for a Cornish pasty (5) |
| CLAMP | Word related to the name of a mollusc for a mechanical vice that also means a heap of root vegetables; a stack of bricks; or, a car immobiliser (5) |
| EDDO | Strange English reflection of root vegetable (4) |
| SPROUT | Hold forth about origin of root vegetable |
| PARSNIP | Father's pin-up consuming top of root vegetable |
| ROT | Half of root vegetable left to go bad |
| TURNIP | Type of root vegetable (6) |
| CARROT | Type of root vegetable (6) |
| ARTICHOKE | Gag after getting what sounds like each end of root vegetable (9) |
| MARROW | Flipping garden creature's eaten half of root vegetable (6) |
| CLUMP | Covered heap of root vegetables (5) |
| TOPS | Leafy parts of root vegetables (4) |
| PARSNIPS | Treat sprain with supplement of root vegetables (8) |
| CHAMPS | Covered heaps of root vegetables (6) |
| ONTARIO | Black stuff found in the majority of root vegetables in Canada (7) |
| RADICAL | The base form of a word, a political extremist, a reactive chemical species, sign or zero of a function, all linked by the concept of "root" (7) |
| OORT | ___ cloud source of some comets (anagram of root) |
| BALL | A spherical mass of crystal, leather, minced beef, snow, wool, yarn etc; the delivery of the "cherry" in cricket; a plant's compact mass of roots with its surrounding soil; or, a formal assembly for d |
