| SALTPAN | Cooked plantains, but not in shallow basin (4,3) |
| BANANAS | Cavendish, burro and plantains (7) |
| STAPLES | Cassava and plantains, for example |
| SOLDIER | Strip of bread-and-butter or toast; the ribwort plantain used in a child's game; a red herring; or, a private (7) |
| ISABGUL | Nasty bugs ail plantain seeds |
| MOFONGO | Puerto Rican fried plantain dish |
| RIBWORT | A ribbed-leaved plantain wildflower - some crib, worthless (7) |
| BALDELLIA | Genus of aquatic plants commonly known as lesser water-plantains (9) |
| FRUIT | Durians and plantains |
| MUSA | Genus of large tree-like herbs that includes the bananas and plantains (4) |
| BUNCH | Quantity of plantains |
| STEW | "Red red" is a Ghanaian bean ___ made with tomato paste, red palm oil, seasonings (and often meat or seafood), served with a side of fried plantains |
| BANANASPLIT | Bit of Breyers and a plantain's fixed for dessert (6,5) |
| PEEL | Plantain's outer covering |
| ABACA | There, taken back in a taxi, a plantain (5) |
| BANANA | Graduate finds double sodium in plantain relative (6) |
| TAMALE | Dish that's often steamed in corn husks or plantain leaves |
| INSECT | Aphid, for example, found in plantain section (6) |
| ISPAGHULA | The dried seeds of an Asian plantain, used in the treatment of dysentery |
| OKRA | One of those in the Mallow family removing plantain from national park (4) |
