| BEARBAITING | Put up with teasing that was once thought entertaining (4-7) |
| DERISION | Teasing that is holding teacher up defended by lecturer (8) |
| CATANDMOUSE | (Play) with teasing cruelty |
| EVILSPIRIT | Demon drink maybe that was once thought to cause illnesses? (4,6) |
| ARCHAEOPTERYX | The genus of feathered dinosaur that was once thought to be the oldest known fossil bird. Fossils are known from specimens found in the Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Bavaria, Germany, starting in 1 |
| PASTBELIEFS | They were once thought, though almost entirely incredible (4,7) |
| ATOM | It was once thought to be smallest particle of matter (4) |
| PASTBELIEF | It was once thought incredible (4,6) |
| OMEN | Birds circling overhead, it was once thought |
| CHANCE | Pinball was once thought to be a game of luck or ___ |
| SPLEEN | Malice was once thought to be the seat of melancholy (6) |
| SPY | Explorer-botanist Andre Michaux was once thought to be one for the French |
| HAREBRAINEDIDEA | What human flight was once thought to be |
| MILKVETCH | Purple ____ was once thought to improve dairy cow yields |
| NOBLEGAS | Peer regarded as hilarious here was once thought to be inert |
| RUPTUREWORT | Old World plant of the pink family once thought to be a cure for hernias (11) |
| WORMS | Eating a hair from a horse's forelock was once thought to be cure for what? (5) |
| MANDRAKE | Eurasian plant of the nightshade family whose forked root was once thought to have magic powers; Mandragora officinarum (8) |
| PEA | In a pod, mushed, used to make soup or blown out of a toy shooter, it is a small spherical green seed or pulse whose name in question was once thought to be a plural's singular (3) |
| PITCH | Penny with teasing desire to have a throw (5) |
