| COUNTERPANE | It is put on bed to be an antidote to suffering, one hears (11) |
| RICOTTA | Woman takes bed to be an Italian export (7) |
| GARDEN | Do work on beds to get out of danger (6) |
| COUNTERMEASURE | Pint from bar could be an antidote (14) |
| IODINE | It is put on cuts to prevent infection |
| HUBCAP | Focal point, explosive device, it is put on centre of wheel (6) |
| ENTERITIS | Tube complaint? It is put on record (9) |
| MATRIMONIAL | Male has a difficult experience, suffering one day of marriage (11) |
| MAGICBULLET | Caught in a big frenzy, fish swallowed whole as an antidote (5,6) |
| MITHRIDATES | Antidotes to poison, or the King of Pontus, 120-63BC (11) |
| DIMERCAPROL | Antidote to arsenic or mercury poisoning |
| UNDERSTRESS | Give to suffering too little strain emphasis (5,6) |
| HAIROFTHEDOG | An alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover |
| ILLS | "Humor is an antidote to all ___": Patch Adams (4) |
| COUNTERACTING | Behaving like an antidote to the theatricality of a shopman? (13) |
| GUACO | Tropical vine-like American plant, reputedly an antidote to snakebite (5) |
| FRESHAIR | Original tune an antidote to being stuck inside? (5,3) |
| DOSED | Gave an antidote to |
| BUNSEN | Chemist who discovered an antidote to arsenic poisoning, invented a gas burner and, with Kirchoff, determined the composition of the Sun and fixed stars (6) |
| ECHIUM | From the Greek for "viper", for its use in folk medicine as an antidote to snakebites, the genus of the wild purple bloom called viper's bugloss (6) |
