2  tic disorder: motor or phonic (8)

 5  facial nerve paralysis; a ringer (4,5)

 8  autism spectrum disorder (8)

10 reduced blood flow if cold or emotional stress (7)

12 think baseball; not AL but ALS (3,6)

14 cancer of the lymphatic tissue (9)

15 mosquitos might surround Cleopatra and give her a headache (4,4,5)

17 chronic acid/reflux esophagitis; pre-malignant (7)

 1  overproduction of thyroid hormones; crypts (6)

 3  nephroblastoma; children most affected (5)

 4  “cooker’s” knee cyst (5)

 6  severe pneumonia caused by legionella bacterium; convention (11)

 7  cancer of the lymphatic tissue (7)

 8  summarizes health of newborns (appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration) (5)

 9  hemorrhagic fever (virus) surprisingly arrived in US in 2014 (5)

11 most common form of dementia (9)

13 inflammatory bowel disease; cobblestone ulcerations (5)

16 spread by ticks; a city (4)