| ENTAIL | Involve, in part, a patient ailing in hospital (6) |
| COFFER | Sounds like someone ailing in the chest (6) |
| SICKLY | Ailing in Italian island, taking potassium for illness primarily (6) |
| DREAMT | Imagined, in part, a one hundred ream trailer load (6) |
| IJSSEL | Dutch river, in part a distributary of the Rhine (6) |
| ENMESH | Involve, in a way |
| ENGAGE | Involve (in) |
| INMESH | Involve in difficulties |
| LASAGNA | This word in English has somewhat complicated origins, though it comes by way of, in part, a Latin word meaning "chamber pot" and a Vulgar Latin word meaning "cooking pot," by which it evolved to an I |
| BRIANCASTRO | Which Adelaide-based award-winning novelist wrote Chinese Postman (2024), in part a reflection on memory and ageing from his home in the Adelaide Hills? (5,6) |
| PAPALIST | A friend is, in part, a supporter of the pontiff |
| OPAL | Be-Bop-A-Lula, in part, a gem (4) |
| ALEXMILLER | Whose nonfiction work, Max (2020), is in part a reflection on humanity struggling with the complexities of 20th-century Europe? (4,6) |
| PRISCILLA | Woman's cold and ailing in Paris, needing treatment |
| BRILLIANT | Bright, but ailing in the brain and needing surgery before time (9) |
| LOSER | Tiepolo's Eros is in part a failure (5) |
| RISSOLE | Is bearing, in part, a fried cake |
| ILEAC | Connected to digestive tract in part a mile across! |
| TARO | In part a root that's valued as food (4) |
| SUMATRA | Island, in part, a must-see from the east |
