| PHLEGM | One of the four bodily humours in early Western physiological theory, thought to induce indolence or apathy (6) |
| HUMOURS | In early western physiological theory, there were four of these: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile (7) |
| CHOLER | One of the four bodily humours, known as yellow bile (6) |
| IDLENESS | Indolence or laziness |
| PLACATE | Humour's in short supply following Trump's latest plan to banish extremists |
| TOMMIX | Big name in early westerns [2009] |
| FRIENDLYISLANDS | Early Western name for Tonga, owing to the people's conviviality (8,7) |
| BLOOD | One of the four medieval medical humours (5) |
| EYES | In which organs of the body would you find aqueous and vitreous humours? (4) |
| STIMULANT | A substance such as caffeine that raises levels of nervous or physiological activity in the body (9) |
| CIRCADIAN | Of physiological processes, occurring approximately every twenty-four hours in accordance with the body's 'biological clock' (9) |
| SQUAW | Early western, The ___ Man |
| SWINGER | A trendy type of early western vocalist |
| BILE | Yellow and Black ___, two of the four Hippocratic humours (4) |
| JONSON | Ben -; English dramatist identified as England's first poet laureate who also established the "comedy of humours" (6) |
| SENSE | Any of the traditional five physiological faculties sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and the many |
| BIOLOGICALCLOCK | A supposed in-built mechanism that regulates the physiological cycles and rhythms of living organisms (10,5) |
| LARUE | Early western star Lash |
| LASH | - LaRue of early Westerns |
| POLYGRAPHS | The recording of physiological changes, as used in lie detection (10) |
