| DOCTOR | Novel virus found in bones, unknown in the past (6,7) |
| ZHIVAGO | Novel virus found in bones, unknown in the past (6,7) |
| SOLVE | Explain trace of virus found in fish (5) |
| TRAPEZIA | Bones: unknown number buried by a pirate all over the place (8) |
| FIRST | Novel Virus Centre has a tight hand over it (5) |
| EUREKA | Lab where joyful shout when virus found? (6) |
| ANTIQUITY | Possible worker with resignation statement, unknown in the past (9) |
| BEYONCE | Singer's live, unknown in the past (7) |
| YANGTZE | Flower gnat mutated on unknown in the past |
| YOGA | Unknown in the past - twisted philosophy (4) |
| PHOSPHATE | Acidity levels get huge, ingested, found in bones (9) |
| MARROW | Courgette is a small one... found in bones (6) |
| CALCIUM | White mineral found in bones and teeth (7) |
| SACRUM | Strange pouch first found in bone (6) |
| OSSEIN | Most plentiful collagen found in bone, sometimes extracted to produce gelatin (6) |
| RIBOSE | Sugar found in bone and lobster (occasionally) |
| RIBOSOME | Oxygen found in bone and some part of a cell (8) |
| BCELL | Lymphocyte found in bone marrow |
| YESTERDAY | Aye, tread carelessly with the unknown in the immediate past (9) |
| HOLYLAND | Unknown in the country, Palestine in the Bible (4,4) |
