Related Clues:

• Hard vegetable
• Plant with crisp root eaten raw
• Pungent edible root for salads
• Pungent edible root
• A ruddy plate for the artist?
• That's how I'd come back among the red spots
• The paparazzi?
• Sounds as if one might take it as read that that's something for the Academician to eat
• Red enough for an Academician to have on a plate
• That's the ruddy root of something to eat at last
• That ruddy picture was done by him on the flat
• Cut the top off what's red and the rest is 6 down
• The root of what's red for the artist to eat (6)
• I'd turn up in red spots
• By the sound of it, take it as read that it's food for the artist