| PODAGRA | Contracted from arthropod a grave disease |
| TOMB | Grave disease swamps retiring doctor (4) |
| AGOUTIS | A disease one has contracted from rodents (7) |
| CHOLERA | Disease contracted from infected water |
| WENDYWILLIAMS | TV star who had to take a hiatus from her talk show to address her Graves' disease: 2 wds. |
| NAPPYRASH | Spotted outbreak contracted from child's waste container (5,4) |
| FROSTY | Cold contracted from filthy place (6) |
| AGUE | Fever contracted from ragu eaten too quickly (4) |
| THYROID | Gland that causes Graves' disease |
| ALLNIGHT | Everyone in 1 down contracted from dusk till dawn (3-5) |
| INSECT | Word, from "cut up, incise", for a segmented arthropod, such as a bee, beetle or butterfly (6) |
| ARACHNID | A terrestrial arthropod with four pairs of legs, such as a spider or scorpion (8) |
| CRUSTACEAN | Arthropod with a hard shell, such as a lobster, crab, shrimp or woodlouse (10) |
| PCRAB | Marine arthropod with a curved carapace and a long tail-spine |
| SEGMENT | From the Latin for "to cut", each of several parts into which something, such as an arthropod/insect, orange or population, is or may be divided; or, part of a circle that is cut by its chord (7) |
| ANTENNA | From the Latin for "sail-yard", word for a feeler or horn of an insect or other arthropod, adopted by Marconi to describe an aerial (7) |
| SECTION | Sharing its root, "to cut", with the name given to any segmented arthropod, word for a chapter, division, passage or other portion of a whole (7) |
| HORSESHOECRAB | Marine arthropod of the genus Limulus with a rounded armoured body and a long pointed tail (9,4) |
| SNUG | Like an arthropod in a carpet |
| PILLBUG | Arthropod that can roll into a ball |
