| EYEBEAM | A ray once thought to be sent out by the eye (7) |
| IMPERIL | Royal assassin's first to be sent out to put someone in danger (7) |
| SOLDER | Join as private, one to be sent out |
| SOWBANE | Plant once thought to be toxic to pigs (7) |
| DISCERN | Distinguish by the eye, or by understanding (7) |
| SWEETEN | Very little can be sent out, sugar (7) |
| NASCENT | Can be sent out on coming into being (7) |
| NESTLES | Sent out by Leslie but gets comfortable, anyway (7) |
| GOGGLES | Seems surprised by the eye protectors (7) |
| AQUEOUS | ____ humour, fluid produced by the eye (7) |
| SUNBEAM | Old car, one of many sent out by local star |
| VISIBLE | Perceivable by the eyes |
| SACCADE | Jump made by the eyes while reading |
| PEA | In a pod, mushed, used to make soup or blown out of a toy shooter, it is a small spherical green seed or pulse whose name in question was once thought to be a plural's singular (3) |
| CARROTS | Root vegetables synonymous with enticement and once thought to improve night vision, due to Britain's war-era propaganda, encouraging blackouts and covering up the RAF's use of newly invented radar sy |
| NESTLE | Sent out by the French to settle down comfortably (6) |
| KINGSEVIL | A term for the disease scrofula once thought to be curable by a monarch's touch (5,4) |
| ANEMONE | Flower once thought to protect against evil |
| MADWORT | Plant once thought to cure rabies |
| REMORA | The sucking-fish, once thought to be a hindrance to shipping (6) |