| DECOMPRESSION | ___ sickness, another name for the bends, a sometimes fatal disorder affecting divers (13) |
| BENDS | Which sometimes fatal disorder is known as Caisson disease (5) |
| ALPINIST | Sometimes tackling death zone ridges, self-rescuing from crevasses and enduring altitude sickness, another word for a mountaineer (8) |
| ECHELON | Step taken to account for the bends (7) |
| TURN | Change into, for the bend |
| NERVOUSSYSTEM | Must've sensory disorders -- affecting this? (7,6) |
| CONTORTIONIST | One liable to suffer from the bends? (13) |
| SUMMERHOUSE | General name for a sometimes revolving belvedere, gazebo, pavilion or miniature thatched cottage for the garden (6,5) |
| GLITCH | A sometimes starquake-induced change in a pulsar's rotational frequency; or, a temporary fault in the workings of a system (6) |
| TSS | Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of |
| YELLOWFEVER | What is the sometimes fatal infectious disease transmitted by a mosquito and characterised by jaundi |
| REACH | Stretch of water between canal locks or river bends; a boxer's "wingspan"; a measure of the size of an audience exposed to an advert; or, the distance sailed between tacks |
| TIME | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a circle that bends, a ticking river that flows with no end" |
| FLEXOR | A muscle whose contraction bends a limb or other part of the body (6) |
| MACADAM | Round the bend a river ebbing, seeking stones on the way (7) |
| MADAGASCAR | Around the bend, a vehicle picking up fuel for island (10) |
| ARMADA | A river -- round the bend a large group of vessels (6) |
| LAYS | Bends a shoot to the ground for propagation (4) |
| DEMENTIA | A set of symptoms caused by disorders affecting the brain (8) |
| METAPHOR | A sometimes mixed trope, literally carrying or transferring a meaning (8) |
