| THEBENDS | Decompression sickness that can affect divers (3,5) |
| BOTULISM | Sickness that comes from contaminated food |
| AWAKENINGS | Oliver Sacks's memoir about sleeping sickness that was made into a film with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams (10) |
| ALTITUDE | ____ sickness, a condition that can affect mountaineers at great heights (8) |
| BLACKLEG | Infectious disease that can affect cattle, sheep and other livestock (8) |
| BLISTERS | Barman first in hospital with small problem that can affect the feet (8) |
| STAGGERS | A form of vertigo associated with decompression sickness |
| GASPRICE | It can affect where you stop on a road trip |
| PANCREAS | Pears can affect body part (8) |
| HOOF | Though it sounds like a problem that plagues a horse who seems to always say the wrong * thing, ___ in mouth disease is a real illness that can affect horses, cows, sheep and pigs |
| DISTEMPER | Paint is something that can affect dogs badly (9) |
| ANAESTHESIA | The loss of feeling that can affect NHS patients? |
| WEATHER | Atmosphere condition that can affect angling success (7) |
| ERGOT | Fungus that can affect wheat crops |
| ACNE | Skin condition that can affect self-esteem |
| ADHD | Abbreviation of a behavioural condition characterised by hyperactivity that can affect children and adults (1,1,1,1) |
| SEACHANGE | Paradigm shift that can affect the starred answers without altering their clues |
| HYPERBARIC | Used by divers suffering from decompression sickness, this kind of chamber can maintain pressures hi |
| ENDS | Black out from decompression sickness, which can result in deaths |
| BENDS | Divers' decompression sickness, the ... |