| SPLINT | A thin piece of wood used to hold a fractured or dislocated bone in position (6) |
| SPLINTS | Rigid strips used to hold a broken bone in position (7) |
| BROKEN | Fractured or smashed (6) |
| FALSERIB | Drunken barflies dislocated bone (5,3) |
| MANDIBLE | Maiden Belinda dislocated bone (8) |
| BRITTLER | More easily cracked, fractured or snapped |
| ASLANT | A thin piece of wood round rear of cabin in a sloping direction (6) |
| STRAND | A thin piece of hair or wire (6) |
| STAVES | Strips of wood used to make barrels and some of these vats turned up (6) |
| MASTIC | A certain resin is used to hold a sail, I see (6) |
| STICKS | Thin pieces of wood that have fallen or been cut off a tree (6) |
| SPROCKET | Any one of the cogs or teeth of a chainwheel; the wheel itself; or, in architecture, a piece of wood used to extend a roof over its eaves (8) |
| ANCHOR | Heavy object used to hold a ship to one place (6) |
| SHINGLE | Word that takes us from rooftop to seashore and from man-made to nature, when referring to a piece of wood used as a house tile or a mass of small rounded pebbles on a beach (7) |
| SPARSE | Thin pieces of wood on top of earth (6) |
| PYTHON | Spy thongs being used to hold a large reptile |
| SILVER | Metal, a thin piece with lithium twisted inside (6) |
| SPINDLES | Wooden spikes used to spin cotton, flax or wool into yarn; or, a turned piece of wood used as a chair leg or banister (8) |
| STICK | A thin piece of wood that may be used to fasten by piercing, hence a word meaning "adhere, affix, cling" (5) |
| PLANKS | Second thoughts about thin pieces of wood |
