| IONISER | Device in a purifier designed to improve the air quality in a room by means of creating a static cha |
| ARMCHAIR | Comfortable seat - one found in a room by cleaner (8) |
| SHIATSU | Japanese massage therapy designed to improve the flow of the body's vital force (qi) along its natural channels (meridians); literally, 'finger pressure' (7) |
| AEROBICS | Physical exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system (8) |
| SCULLERY | Old-fashioned term for a room by a kitchen where e.g. washing is done (8) |
| STERILISER | Circulation of air, tireless, not requiring a purifier? (10) |
| AMOROUS | Romantic reconstruction of a room by us (7) |
| LODESTONE | Something that attracts many on the air -- quality (9) |
| EPA | Government group concerned with the air quality index: Abbr. |
| ARTTEACHER | Employed in a classy drawing room by one informing the masters of tomorrow in a crafty way (3,7) |
| FILTER | Device such as a water purifier in an aquarium or swimming pool; or, a porous cone in a coffee machine (6) |
| JACKLEMMON | After Ving Rhames beat this famed actor for a 1998 Golden Globe, he then shocked the room by gifting the statuette to the actor onstage |
| LUTE | ... regularly flaunt electronic means of creating The Sound of Music? (4) |
| DIG | To move dirt about, often with the intention of creating a hole |
| PIPEDREAM | Unlikely hope of creating a pad in the empire (4,5) |
| EUGENIC | Designed to improve a race by selective breeding |
| PILATES | A system of exercises designed to improve physical strength, flexibility and posture (7) |
| SUSPENSE | Thrilling quality in a film or book that keeps one braced, held in abeyance, nervously cliffhanging or eagerly dangling on the edge of one's seat (8) |
| ETUDE | Short musical composition, typically for a solo instrument, designed to improve or demonstrate skill; French, 'study' (5) |
| FOODPOISONING | It's produced in the cooking room by doctoring drugs and it'll make one sick to one's stomach (4,9) |
