Brickwork

Enter the solutions to the clues in their numbered layers of the wall. Each word must be an anagram of its neighbours, plus or minus one letter. 1 Wild 2 Bicycle for two 3 Improve, change for the better 4 Curse, condemn 5 Adult male 6 Title 7 Edouard —, Impressionist painter 8 Bemoan 9 Persistent illness