| NEODYMIUM | What's shattered me? Mind you, it is a toxic element |
| FORESHADOW | With the sun behind you it is a warning (10) |
| THENAGAIN | The horse, in a pickle? Mind you... (4,5) |
| CAMUS | French writer whose name is a toxic plant when spelled backward |
| DRUIDS | Medic contacts you - it is over director with magician from Celtic tradition (6) |
| SAYING | Just telling you it is an axiom (6) |
| HOTHOTHOT | 1980s soca hit with the lyric "Me mind on fire, me soul on fire" |
| LEAD | Also called plumbum, a toxic element whose use in everyday life by the Ancient Romans is said by some to have contributed to the empire's downfall (4) |
| ARSENIC | Based on Persian for "gold", a toxic element with compounds including orpiment, or king's yellow as a pigment, once used as an untraceable of murder known as the king of poisons or poison of kings (7) |
| REDARSENIC | Descriptive name for realgar, an ore of a toxic element |
| PLUTONIUM | Pu! There's more than a toxic element to this (9) |
| NOTABENE | I wish it wasn't a mountain expedition - only at first, mind you |
| MENTAL | Lament about it but it's all in the mind, you know! (6) |
| DIAMONDRING | Adoring? Mind, it could be a promising sign (7,4) |
| GAMES | "It 's you, it 's you, it 's all for you |
| POST | You write a letter, put a stamp on it and then you ... it (4) |
| TENDENTIOUSLY | Mind you, lies spread about conservationists in a biased way |
| SORRYIASKED | "Oh, never mind - you clearly don't want to talk about it" |
| INTELLECT | Mind you elect to use lint on it |
| LOVED | "If a million ___ you, I am one of them, and if one ___ you, it was me, if no one ___ you then know that I am dead" (quote attributed to Kafka and repurposed by many superfans) |
