| OCCURING | Happening to be nothing but a dicky heart that needs treating |
| SPORADIC | Occasional lisp or a dicky heart (8) |
| APACKOFCARDS | Alice found royals to be nothing but a herd of eccentrics (1,4,2,5) |
| MAUVE | Colour that needs treating before it can become argumentative (5) |
| WASHINGTON | Used to be nothing, but has become a place of importance (10) |
| AMOUR | Romance, it seems, may be nothing but a rum affair! (5) |
| NERD | "You're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a ___. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an assho |
| CAMEO | Engraving on a gem turned out to be nothing |
| BLANK | This might appear to be nothing as the best poker players will show it to you? (5) |
| DIRECTIONLESS | Such news could appear to be nothing, having no purpose |
| PIANO | It's grand if pain turns out to be nothing (5) |
| OUGHT | Obliged to be nothing (5) |
| EVANESCE | Turn out to be nothing |
| INLOCOPARENTIS | Listen, Picaroon needs treating like a caring person (2,4,8) |
| TENDERNESS | A sore head needs treating with it (10) |
| DIAGNOSTICIAN | Doctor identifying ailments indicating a case of otitis needs treating (13) |
| BEE | "I could her the dull buzz of the ...; In the blossoms as you said to me; 'With a heart that is true; I'll be waiting for you; In the shade of the old apple tree" |
| EVILEYE | Bad heart that may be a curse (4,3) |
| NEARTHEBONE | Poor Geordie with dicky heart needs vitamin (4,3,4) |
| BREATHLESS | Wish well to someone clutching dicky heart, gasping |
