| JOHNSON | "Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured." This Englishman was a commentator of his time whose companion was James Boswell. Who is this? |
| FARMINGOUT | Spending much money because of family ailment (7,3) |
| WEARSEVERALHATS | Be an all-rounder - certainly more than a bowler, it seems (4,7,4) |
| COMFIT | Shortly appear in good health: that was sweet |
| NAILING | Niece initially in bad health - that could be catching (7) |
| WASSAIL | A drinking toast, meaning "be in good health", that came to mean mulled wine or spiced ale for drinking healths; a festive song; the singing of Christmas carols; or, revelry and carousal (7) |
| NICER | Part of Rimini certainly more pleasant (5) |
| ACESHIGH | Each sigh movingly suggests one is more valuable than a king (4,4) |
| ROOK | Chess piece that's considered more valuable than a bishop |
| TULIP | *It once was more valuable than gold |
| EGRETS | Little -; birds whose plumes were once used for millinery and more valuable than gold (6) |
| ORIGINAL | Art more valuable than a print |
| SILVERFIR | Conifer more valuable than a copper beech? (6,3) |
| ORO | Metal more valuable than plata |
| RED | The color of money (if that money is a Brazilian 10 real note) |
| SHAI | "After all my possessions had _. been burned, God gave me the _ wisdom to return to I returned to , and it is by virtue of that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen." -___ |
| REDIS | "___ the color that my baby wore ..." (from "Yes It Is" by the Beatles) |
| ZODIAC | Written in the stars, so it is, by all signs of it. (6) |
| EPISCOPAL | It is by the bishops who cope with a lisp such as this (9) |
| OATES | "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" author |
