| DISSOLVETHENERVES | "With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue / ____ that have just begun" (Spandau Ballet, True) |
| POLISH | There's a shine on my tongue! (6) |
| TOYS | Ask your grandmother: Yoyos, pogo sticks and dolls are ___ that have been around for a long, long time |
| CURRENTARRIVALS | Flights that have just landed |
| UNDEALT | Like cards that have just been shuffled, perhaps |
| ELATE | Fill with a thrill |
| KICKOFF | Start with a thrill away (4,3) |
| JUTTINGLY | A lot of sackcloth offering a thrill in an obvious way? |
| ADVENTURE | It provides a thrill in commercial undertaking (9) |
| NARY | Sadly, critics said there was ____ a thrill in Cusack's 2012 The Raven. |
| GERMANE | Cause of disease and a pill that's appropriate |
| TABLET | Writing paper and a pill (6) |
| BOBBLE | Word for the oscillating motion of disturbed water or of a floating cork; a pill on the surface of cloth; a pompom for a woolly hat; a tie for a ponytail; or, a bungle, fluff, fudge or fumble (6) |
| APRON | *Smock (from the start of the year, I often have a focus on Passover cleaning and prep, far in advance, bits at a time, this month looms in my head long before it arrives) |
| KEN | "I'm Just ___" ("Barbie" song that plays on a loop in my head) |
| ALL | "Is it cool that I said ___ that? / Is it chill that you're in my head?" ("Delicate" lyric) |
| TOSS | "___ A Coin To Your Witcher" (bop from the bard Jaskier that stays on loop in my head for dayyyyys) |
| PROTOCOL | Accepted code of behaviour, sounds more like a pill on a prescription! (8) |
| THOUGHTS | "And I would that my tongue could utter the ... that arise in me" (Tennyson) |
| TABLETHUNTER | One who dropped a pill on the floor? |
