| UNCURED | Still ill; not smoked, salted or dried |
| FAGEND | Last and worst part is not smoked (3,3) |
| BLOATER | Smoked salted herring |
| HAM | Word for an amateur radio operator; an inexpert boxer; an excessively theatrical actor or thesp; the crooked back of a knee/thigh; a hog's hock; or, salted or smoked meat from said porcine part (3) |
| PEANUTS | Legumes or kernels often salted or dry-roasted as snacks; or, a comic strip by Charles M. Schulz (7) |
| KIPPER | A herring that has been cleaned, salted or smoked (6) |
| CURED | Salted or smoked |
| INEDIBLE | Lie in bed ill; not fit enough to eat |
| UNHEALTHY | Ill, not wholesome |
| POORLY | Ill, not feeling great (6) |
| DICKENS | Author's daughter becomes ill, not son (7) |
| BERYLLIUM | Be unfortunate, keeping very ill, not very doddery (9) |
| FALLIBLE | Unlikely story about returning ill, not to be relied on |
| PEANUT | Salted or dry roasted item (6) |
| BACON | Type of salted or smoke-cured pork(5) |
| HERRING | Fish abundant in the North Atlantic, often salted or pickled (7) |
| HERBARIUM | From Latin for "grass, green crops", a word for a systematically arranged hortus siccus, or "dried garden", of classified mounted preserved plants; or, the building, receptacle or room in which such a |
| NOCOMMENT | Ten common moves of which I'll not speak (2,7) |
| SEANCE | Sitting in the ocean nice? I'll not be there (6) |
| CLOVES | Segments of a bulb of garlic; or, dried flower buds used as spice for curries or mulled wine (6) |
