| COUGHED | Needed a lozenge |
| RHOMB | From Greek for "bull-roarer", "magic wheel" or "spinning top", a quadrilateral also called a diamond or a kite; or, a lozenge-shaped thing (5) |
| PASTILLE | A cone or pellet of aromatics or herbs burnt as incense; a lozenge or sweet; or, one of the words for a crayon-like stick of pigment (8) |
| FUSIL | Light flintlock musket; or, a heraldic ordinary/charge similar to a lozenge (5) |
| RHOMBUS | Quadrilateral or parallelogram also called a diamond, kite or a lozenge (7) |
| RHOMBIC | Shaped like a lozenge or diamond (7) |
| ZOLA | Half a lozenge upset French novelist (4) |
| SUCK | Make a lozenge dissolve |
| SORETHROAT | Reason to suck on a lozenge |
| MALARIA | Girl swallows a lozenge primarily for fever (7) |
| CARD | Item whose metaphorical concealment up one's sleeve pertains to a secret asset/plan kept in reserve until needed; a domino; a map; a meishi; or, a race programme (4) |
| TENON | I needed a piece of wood to fit into a mortise, so I got Saul, a leading carpenter from Launceston, to make one for me (5) |
| HICCUPED | Needed a scare, a glass of water, or a lemon, they say |
| DIED | Needed a boost, as a car battery |
| THALAMUS | So securing a hit needed a bit of brains |
| AIRBED | A new bride needed a place to sleep |
| ADVOCATE | A defender needed a medicinal drink, at the end (8) |
| DRYDEN | Poet who needed a room without a leaky roof (6) |
| RESPIRE | RIP! Here lies a seer who needed a way to breathe |
| APOLLO | Space mission needed a mint with a hole including learner (6) |
