| STATIN | Pronouncing short word for heart drug |
| COR | Latin word for "heart", but also a form of "gorblimey", as a rather dated British interjection of surprise (3) |
| RECORD | From the Latin for "heart", a word originally meaning "call to mind, learn by heart", later any chronicle, log, memorandum or register (6) |
| ARREST | Cardiac ____, another term for heart failure (6) |
| JAMBOS | Nickname for Heart of Midlothian FC (6) |
| TICKER | "Head" erased from label for heart (6) |
| CENTRE | Recent surgery for heart (6) |
| ACCENT | Distinctive way of pronouncing language (6) |
| SPELLS | Breaks down when pronouncing sentence? (6) |
| GRAMME | Old King returns Austen novel, pronouncing it 'lightweight' (6) |
| SAYING | Pronouncing to be a hackneyed phrase (6) |
| HANDLE | Cope with pronouncing the foreign composer's name (6) |
| ABRUPT | British Rail's happy for heart-less worker to be outside - unexpected? (6) |
| NELLIE | Ship created by Joseph Conrad for "Heart of Darkness" |
| BYPASS | Pays outrageously to get in Bachelor of Surgery for heart operation |
| COHORT | Alcohol important for heart, body? |
| DIMSUM | Hazy, a bit, in pronouncing Chinese cuisine (3,3) |
| EYEFUL | Here butcher's pronouncing name of tower |
| LISPED | Had trouble pronouncing 's' |
| ELIDES | Passes over in pronouncing |