Possible Clues:

• A plant; hole in sock (colloq.)
• From the dugout to take a shot at round here
• This vegetable is too apt
• This staple food is to apt
• Perhaps the way one might take a chip shot at nothing?
• A lid's raised and closed - it's often chipped
• It's in the chips
• Apt to wander round getting food
• See 5-Across
• Vegetable squashed in middle of footpath