17 diagram entries suffer from a disease. Which entries is revealed by the following symptoms: their clue has either a superfluous letter, or a missing letter. Those letters, read in order, will reveal the name of the disease.
Spacing in the clues of diseased words is sometimes incorrect. Enumerations are withheld. Two words are capitalized.
Across
| 1 | 101, 109 bracketing a TV reporter's first scar |
| 7 | Tofu's catching quiet snake in cab nets |
| 12 | Suppresses brothers on prime time |
| 13 | "Shape-ism" is not OK with fellow sailors |
| 14 | Find drop of water in medicine |
| 15 | Contractor: one involved in durable remodeling |
| 16 | That's a laugh: you finally went ahead, getting carried away |
| 17 | Pompous - undo decay on the outside, decay on the inside |
| 20 | To demean wiggly worm |
| 21 | Unhappy with clenched fist, a miss stopped running around |
| 27 | Armed group's backwards goal: to have one ignited inside |
| 28 | Tent poles in baskets |
| 30 | GE con: tan's ultimate weapon for policeman |
| 31 | "That cat be saved, Sir Fred!" (See FM cable dropping leads.) |
| 32 | Sometime nom: QUAD-WRANGLE |
| 33 | Stubborn talk assumes flawed dub |
| 34 | Surprisingly, Diana lauds part of Spain |
| 35 | Cousteau is one feature in nature video from the East! |
Down
| 1 | Group to follow in military craft, or die for refusal to obey |
| 2 | Eliot and Al's top (hyphenated) |
| 3 | Unhappy camper in devastated site uses the word |
| 4 | In revolutionary Mexico, mute Inca moves to purge |
| 5 | To bring into harmony, had most of fish inside |
| 6 | To once again go over first third of rehearsal: cash |
| 8 | Professional University Dean initially is arrogant |
| 9 | Pirate fish mostly eat phosphorus |
| 10 | For the second time, dispatch tear about either side of eyes |
| 11 | Not very subtle advantage: Henri's initial appearance in jail |
| 18 | Train bird: put article in stick |
| 19 | Crate: many a ritual fascist? (hyphenated) |
| 22 | Spider corral fenced by three-dimensional curve |
| 23 | A leader in name only: he'd fire a gun at random |
| 24 | Enormous job before aper |
| 25 | Silver found in swamp? It's an illusion |
| 26 | Gets on without head - with legs perhaps? |
| 29 | Man objects, in succession, hearing request - from what place? |