| TEARS | Lacerations and things they can create? (5) |
| TIERS | Rows and things they can create, they say (5) |
| PLAGUE | Commencement of pain, laceration and fever leads to medieval epidemic |
| PLUNDER | "To ___, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire, and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace": Tacitus (7) |
| DYES | They can create highlights |
| BREWERS | They can create drafts |
| ADMEN | For products promoted, they can create endless demand (5) |
| PEDALS | They can create distortion |
| EYEWITNEESES | They can give first-hand descriptions of things they have seen (12) |
| CILIA | Hairlike structures that extend from the surface of many cells; they can create movement of surrounding fluid. |
| UPPERCUTS | Lacerations in footwear can be most damaging to a boxer |
| MEN | "- are queer creatures. They have the most wonderful brains in some ways, but in little things they are as stupid as owls." Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (3) |
| CUP | ... and the sort of thing they usually get given when they do! (3) |
| NAM | "The Things They Carried" setting, familiarly |
| MARINES | The things they"re told are incredible! (7) |
| TIM | 'The Things They Carried' author O'Brien |
| HEYS | Things they shout, in part |
| WREXHAM | Welsh football side that ruins those things, they say (7) |
| TROOPS | Group of soldiers, like in "The Things They Carried" |
| FAUCET | Tap and wrench the thing, they say (6) |
