| IMPETIGO | Infection of one's darling - getting one shot (8) |
| GUESTOF | (and 5 Across) Special invitee getting one shot of guru somehow (5,2,6) |
| ALCOVE | A darling getting cold in nook (6) |
| CARPETING | Kind to embrace darling getting reprimand (9) |
| TRUELOVE | One's darling, dear or sweetheart; a fisherman's knot; herb Paris; or, also called a quatrefoil, the architectural equivalent of a four-leaf clover (8) |
| RINGWORM | Fungal infection of the skin characterised by round patches (8) |
| TINNITUS | Roman emperor nursing local infection of ear (8) |
| PEROXIDE | Hydrogen ____, a mild antiseptic used on the skin to prevent infections of minor cuts etc (8) |
| GANTANOL | A sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract). |
| PURPLERAIN | "Take Me With U," "The Beautiful Ones," "Darling Nikki" |
| SWEETIE | Singular small accessory for one's darling (7) |
| IDEA | Fancy one darling, shortly? (4) |
| BABY | It's a little one, darling |
| ACUTETRIANGLE | One darling percussion instrument? |
| TETANUS | An acute bacterial infection of the nervous system caused by infection of open wounds. (7) |
| CHOLERA | Acute disease caused by infection of the intestine, the cause of millions of deaths (7) |
| EPIDEMIC | Widespread infection of the outer skin? That's not right (8) |
| STYE | An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid. |
| ATHLETESFOOT | Fungal infection of the skin also known as tinea pedis (8,4) |
| WHITLOW | Woman, upset and miserable getting painful infection of finger (7) |
