| HANDKERCHIEF | Helper with chef Erik perhaps, there for the sniffles (12) |
| COLD | Reason for the sniffles |
| MIDDLEGROUND | Between Hogan and Cusack perhaps there's a compromise to be found (6,6) |
| GORDONRAMSAY | Brown sheep, we hear, connected with chef (6,6) |
| SPELLCHECKER | Scriptwriter's helper with period piece in Hollywood? (12) |
| CHURCHWARDEN | Parish helper with a pipe (12) |
| LEFTHANDSIDE | Port links abandoned helper with arrogance (4-4,4) |
| COLDMEDICINE | Sniffle- stifling substance |
| COLDSWEATS | Attire for people with the sniffles? |
| HANKY | Cloth item that's good for when you have the sniffles for short |
| SCOLD | Tick off the little son with the sniffles (5) |
| CATCH | --- a cold, come down with the sniffles (5) |
| CATCHCOLD | Become ill with the sniffles (5,4) |
| SLIGHTCOLD | It might involve a small case of the sniffles |
| COMMUNECOLD | "The sniffles" in a shared living society? |
| AIL | Have the sniffles and body aches |
| NOODLE | With no dole, perhaps, there's very little to eat (6) |
| DOVECOTTAGE | Within Homer's house perhaps there's name for later poet's |
| HOTWATER | In the bottle, perhaps, there's trouble! |
| CHEWTHEFAT | Discuss what to do with crackling, perhaps, with chef that we organised (4,3,3) |