| KINGSEVIL | A term for the disease scrofula once thought to be curable by a monarch's touch (5,4) |
| FLU | Common term for the disease influenza (3) |
| TREATABLE | May bleat about tear away, but he may be curable (9) |
| BLUE | Melancholy, but could be curable if car disposed of (4) |
| LEADGLASS | A term for the heavy plumbeous "crystal" developed by George Ravenscroft in the 17th century (4,5) |
| SALOPIANS | A term for the natives or inhabitants of the county of Shropshire (9) |
| SUMPSIMUS | Taken from a Latin prayer, a term for the correct equivalent of an incorrect but popular expression |
| NANDADEVI | Indian mountain once thought to be the world’s highest |
| CARBUNCLE | Starts to need care in possibly curable skin condition (9) |
| LUBRICATE | Oil makes it curable, treatable (9) |
| LOVE | "A temporary insanity curable by marriage," according to "The Devil's Dictionary" |
| PLAINS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| INDIANS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| ETHER | Anesthetic that used to be used by dentists or a term for the sky |
| SMALL | A term for the narrow part of the lower back; or, an adjective preceding "talk" to describe a yack (5) |
| 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) |
| AZALEA | "Royalty of the garden" flower's name, whose first two letters hint at a term for the alphabet or for a road map (6) |
| ETAGE | French word for a floor or storey; or, a term for the grouping of cloud height in meteorology (5) |
| OCCIDENT | A term for the West, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Western world (8) |
| ERGOT | Get Reg to look for the disease in the rye |
