| CELERIAC | Vegetable with a swollen turnip-like stem-base (8) |
| KOHLRABI | Cabbage with an edible turnip like stem (8) |
| TREEFERN | Large tropical plant with a trunk-like stem bearing fronds at the top (4,4) |
| RHIZOMES | Underground root-like stems (8) |
| FENNEL | Related to dill, carrot and parsley, a plant with a bulb-like stem eaten as a vegetable (6) |
| BIGWIG | VIP with a swollen head, presumably (6) |
| SON | With a swollen head, he gets along |
| SCOTER | Mostly black duck with a swollen bill (6) |
| GOUT | Disease often associated with a swollen big toe (4) |
| BEET | Plant with a swollen edible root (4) |
| CORMORANTS | Swollen stem-base, or insects, as waterbirds |
| SWEDE | Turnip-like vegetable with a purplish-yellow skin (5) |
| ASPARAGUS | Perennial plant having leaf-like stems, scale-like leaves, and small flowers, and the young shoots of which are eaten as a vegetable (9) |
| TENDRIL | Slender thread-like stem that twines round a support (7) |
| CORM | Bulb-like stem of a plant |
| RADISH | From Latin for "root", a cream, pink, red or white miniature-turnip- like salad vegetable that is a fictional favourite of Peter Rabbit (6) |
| TUBER | What is a swollen underground root or stem such as a potato? (5) |
| MEADOWFESCUE | Erect Eurasian perennial grass, Festuca pratensis, with lustrous leaves and stem bases surrounded by |
| SAIGA | Goat-like antelope of Eurasia which has a swollen nose and pig-like snout (5) |
| PERON | Person without a swollen head, yet a dictator! (5) |
