| THALIDOMIDE | Young Sydney gynaecologist William McBride discovered an alarming number of birth defects from mothe |
| VITALSTATISTICS | Official facts showing e.g. the number of births, marriages and deaths in a particular country (5,10) |
| GNU | Animal found in alarming numbers |
| CLEFTPALATE | A pet cat fell foul of birth defect. (5,6) |
| CADILLAC | Antoine de la Mothe ?, founder of the settlement that became the US city of Detroit, Michigan (8) |
| MET | Word between How I and Your Mothe - title of a US sitcom from 2005-14 (3) |
| HARELIP | Real breaks in joint, result of birth defect |
| MCBRIDE | Who discovered that thalidomide taken during pregnancy causes birth defects? (7) |
| CLEFTPALATES | Head of cardiology handed over pictures featuring advanced birth defects (5,7) |
| BLUEMURDER | An alarming noise caused by an unhappy group of crows (4,6) |
| EARNER | Learn erudite members had discovered an informal source of income |
| BUNSEN | Chemist who discovered an antidote to arsenic poisoning, invented a gas burner and, with Kirchoff, determined the composition of the Sun and fixed stars (6) |
| TERATOGENIC | Describing waste that has the potential to cause birth defects (11) |
| STARTLINGLY | Bird seen around front of the large yard in an alarming way? (11) |
| FRIGHTENINGLY | Somehow gentrifying centre of Balham in an alarming way (13) |
| MINE | They discovered an explosive that had been planted in a museum in Exeter (4) |
| ILIUM | Type of bone gynaecologist might recognise in Helen's city? (5) |
| REFORM | Remove defects from |
| DEBUG | Remove defects from revised budget cut (5) |
| WHISTLER | James McNeill, US artist whose works include Arrangement in Grey and Black, No 1: The Artist's Mothe |
