| SSPE | A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults. |
| RUBELLA | Football label ruined by the measles (7) |
| MERCK | Pharmaceutical giant that manufactures the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine |
| ITCH | Reason to think you might have the measles |
| CROUP | Respiratory infection usually caused by a virus and primarily affecting children (5) |
| SIDEROSIS | Multiple _, a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system (9) |
| AFIB | Starts to find issues in sources of virus and bacteria - a little irregular heartbeat (1-3) |
| MS | A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers. |
| LOUGEHRIGSDISEASE | Chronic, progressive degeneration of the nervous system causing muscular paralysis (3,7,7) |
| VERACIOUSLY | It's a cool virus and why it behaves so ravenously |
| TAROT | One in special suit, a king, taking in child? Quite the opposite! |
| ONCEUPONATIME | Catastrophic outbreaks of cholera, TB, encephalitis or pneumonia in the olden days |
| GERMANMEASLES | Disease produced by virus and wild mean seals (6,7) |
| BENJAMINSPOCK | A revolution in child-rearing came about from this doctor's famous Common Sense Book of Baby and Chi |
| SPRINGUPON | Suddenly put in the know, quietly call in child (6,4) |
| WAINSCOT | Somehow saw, in child's bed, a part of the wall (8) |
| ENGULF | Electronic news-gathering spun virus and flood (6) |
| REFLUX | King concealed virus and gastric issue (6) |
| CEILIDH | Energy one's found in child dancing in dance event? (7) |
| ANNA | Forename of Sigmund Freud's daughter whose pioneering work in child psychoanalysis is remembered with a blue plaque (4) |
