| DRACHM | Apothecary weight of 60 grains |
| DRAM | A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains. |
| SCRUPLES | Word derived from the Latin meaning sharp stone for conscience or moral standards; units of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains; or, modicums (8) |
| OUNCE | Unit of apothecary weight |
| DRAMS | Apothecary weight units |
| DRACHMS | Certain apothecary weights (Var.) |
| HOGWASH | Artist whose painting of the children of George II's apothecary, Daniel Graham, includes details of a cat, a cherry-bob, a goldfinch in a gilded cage and a silver basket of fruit (7) |
| HOGARTH | Artist whose painting of the children of George II's apothecary, Daniel Graham, includes details of a cat, a cherry-bob, a goldfinch in a gilded cage and a silver basket of fruit |
| AGATHA | Forename of the apothecary assistant- turned-novelist who used poison to fictionally dispatch around 30 of her characters, including the victim of a "mysterious affair at Styles" (6) |
| NOSTRADAMUS | French apothecary, astrologer and author in 1555 of a book of predictions |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| CHEMIST | An apothecary; a specialist in the science of matter; or, a qualified dispenser of prescription drugs (7) |
| BOUTIQUE | Etymological relative of "bodega" and "apothecary" |
| APACHE | Tyro from apothecary grew up steeped in the adventures of Geronimo presumably (6) |
| CULTISTS | Transmuters or mystics first, later scientists of matter, pharmacists, apothecary shops or drugstores (8) |
| KEATS | Apothecary turned nightingale-admiring poet whose Endymion begins: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" (5) |
| ROMEO | "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick" speaker |
| DOSES | Apothecary units |
| DRUGS | Apothecary offerings |
| FARMACIST | Rural apothecary? |
