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For medics, crossword buffs and, ideally, crossword buff medics.

Every Christmas a village very close to us does a charity quiz fund raiser. This year all answers share the theme of human diseases, parasites, ailments and conditions. For example, ‘The condition of Mama Bear’s porridge may give you a headache’ = Cold.

Most years we manage to answer almost all of the 40 questions but this year our insight is restrained. My wife, the brains of the outfit, is also hampered by ‘chemo brain’. So any help you can offer would be appreciated. The number of letters in the answer is not provided.

1. Blended juice and you might look like a carrot
2. A small cubic centimetre is in a near “solution”
3. Put a side bet around some blood disorder
4. Small American soldier is paraded among tin men
5. Straighten out a small right curve.
6. I am included in equestrian contest.
7. Telephone and obtain by cleverness or trickery or by pleading
8. Just a tick - this can be revealed by only me
9. Twisted rope without end and it “is as is”.
10. “To be or not to be”! that is the question. But, in short, it sounds more than the answer
11. A small place with a general fever and shivering produces a widespread condition.
12. It may appear as a rather awful operatic song but you will have been bitten.
13. Initially the Royal Automobile Club goes around a hole.
14. Reading tiles can be a painful covering.
15. Get rash! I go around with time and a small page.
16. Amen! Edit and disorder for a disorder.
17. A second rate celebrity must have felt the heat.


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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    4 meningitis
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2023
    7 ringworm?
    9 psoriasis
    15 impetigo
    3 diabetes
    1 jaundice
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2023
    They're cryptic crossword clues @pansyface
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    16 Dementia 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    17 Blister
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited December 2023
    15 Impetigo - sorry, just spotted that's been answered
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2023
    5 verruca
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    8 lyme?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    13. Cholera
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    8 lyme?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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