| THECITADEL | 1937 AJ Cronin novel about a doctor's work in a mining town, which is thought to have influenced the NHS's creation |
| SNL | TV show thought to have influenced some 2008 voters |
| CASELOAD | A doctor's work in progress |
| EXTRACT | Separate, in a mining sense (7) |
| ABERDARE | Coal-mining town which was the administrative centre of Cynon Valley district (8) |
| BUCHANAN | Ancient Scottish clan which is thought to have originated on the eastern side of Loch Lomond, in the 13th Century (8) |
| ASSUMPTION | Biblical event which is thought to be true (10) |
| ASBESTOS | Quebec locale historically a mining town |
| NORANDA | Without foreign investment. A mining town. (7) |
| IAM | Movie about a doctor's fight to save civilization from a deadly virus "___ Legend" |
| BAGPIPES | With two feet cut, start to see about a doctor's instrument (8) |
| DROPS | Doctors work in very small quantities, for prescriptions (5) |
| PRACTICE | A doctor's work may be just a runthrough (8) |
| DROP | Discontinue giving a doctor work |
| PATMOS | Greek island in the Aegean Sea on which John the Apostle is thought to have written the Book of Revelation (6) |
| WILDCAT | This untamed cat, which is native to Eurasia and Africa, is thought to have given rise to the domestic cat. |
| BAY | The ___ 2012 found footage film that is about a town which is plagued by a parasite |
| BEAVERLODGE | Northwestern Alberta town which is home to a huge landmark of a busy Canuck creature sitting atop a log |
| STANDREWS | Scottish town which is home to the third oldest university in the Englishspeaking world (2,7) |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
