| SUPERBUG | Informal term for a strain of bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotics (8) |
| VIBRIO | Genus of bacteria that can cause infection via undercooked seafood (6) |
| ECOLI | Kind of bacteria that is sometimes in food and water |
| JEREMIAD | Writing or speech in a strain of grief or distress (8) |
| FORMULAE | Recipes for first of antibiotics fed to stubborn animal (8) |
| AYIANAPA | Cyprus resort that has become a 'party capital' in recent years |
| BACTERIA | ___ are useful in the manufacture of antibiotics (8) |
| MRSA | Strain of bacterial infection resistant to antibiotics (4) |
| SHERLOCK | Literary first name that has become synonymous with "detective" |
| ASTHENIA | Lack of energy, say? So I start on antibiotics |
| VEIN | A strain of character that takes blood to the heart (4) |
| ENGLAND | In part of the UK, New ___ is a strain of late-summer asters, while Calamagrostis x acutiflora '___' is a variegated ornamental grass! (7) |
| KNEEHI | Said of someone or something that is short - and is a strain of mixed, shortgrowing sweet peas! (4-2) |
| CALIBRACHOA | Genus of summer flowers, formerly known as a strain of petunia called 'Million Bells' (11) |
| ANGKORWAT | Complex of ancient temples that has become a symbol of Cambodia and has been depicted on national fl |
| OWNGOAL | Football disaster that has become a metaphor for any action that backfires upon a person (3,4) |
| WOKE | Term that has become shorthand for a particular kind of progressive politics (4) |
| BYEELECTION | Vote to fill a parliamentary seat that has become vacant between general votes (3-8) |
| DUDS | Word for clothes that has become a slang word for defective things (4) |
| ORGANIC | Form of farming lobbied by the Soil Association based on a set of standards that includes cutting the use of pesticides, chemical fertilisers and antibiotics (7) |