| CATARRH | Inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially affecting the nose and throat when subject to the common cold (7) |
| LEAP | This year's long, especially affecting Pisceans for starters (4) |
| POLIO | Acute infectious viral disease especially affecting children (5) |
| DIPHTHERIA | A contagious bacterial infection mainly affecting the nose and throat (10) |
| HOARSE | Having a sore throat when ashore, perhaps (6) |
| ITCH | Hope you don't have one in your throat, when singing |
| LUMP | It's in your throat when you choke up |
| ULCER | A disintegration of the surface of the skin or a mucous membrane resulting in a slow-healing open sore |
| POLYP | Small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane (5) |
| POLYPS | Small vascularised growths arising from the surface of a mucous membrane |
| HAYFEVER | Irritation of the nose and throat by the pollen of flowers or grass, producing sneezing and headaches (3,5) |
| ROYALMINT | Government-owned company producing up to 90 million coins and blanks a week, some of which are subject to the periodic trial of the pyx procedure (5,4) |
| VILLUS | A minute hairlike projection on a mucous membrane (6) |
| BINDOVER | Start to busk in town when subject to legal constraint (4,4) |
| SOLARSYSTEM | The portion of our galaxy which is subject to the gravity of the sun (5,6) |
| AYMARA | Indigenous people (and language) of the Altiplano region of west-central South America, once subject to the Inca empire (6) |
| RHINITIS | Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose (8) |
| CYANOSIS | A bluish-purple discoloration of skin and mucous membranes usually caused by a deficiency of oxygen in the blood |
| COLD | Common virus that affects the nose and throat and has no known cure |
| POLYPI | Small growths protruding from a mucous membrane (6) |
