| OSSIFEROUS | It could describe spine of issues or otherwise (10) |
| OUTLET | Source of issue or emission (6) |
| ARTTHERAPY | Painting, drawing, crafts, sculpture etc as a diagnostic tool to address emotional issues or physica |
| DISCUSS | Talk about, examining issues or ideas (7) |
| FATHERHOOD | Clerical type hides head - it explains a number of issues perhaps (10) |
| BACKISSUES | Trouble with the spine of outdated magazines (4,6) |
| CHILDBIRTH | Production of issue relaxed (though excluding the French place, we hear) (10) |
| FOCUSGROUP | A set of people brought together to give opinions on a particular issue or product (5,5) |
| BRINGINGUP | Raising issue or raising one's issue? (8,2) |
| RIB | Any one of the curved pieces of wood forming the sides of a violin or the body of a lute; ornamental band on the spine of a book; or, an arch separating the webs of a vault (3) |
| ANALOGUE | It could describe a computer or something similar (8) |
| TRUE | It could describe romance or lies (4) |
| NAKED | It could describe lunch, the gun or Juliet (5) |
| RIDGE | From Old English for "spine, crest" and Dutch for "back", a long narrow hilltop or mountain range; or, the spine of a whale or other animal (5) |
| HEADBAND | A decorative strip of coloured silk attached to the top of the spine of a hardback book; or, a hair accessory, such as a fillet or the example named after Lewis Carroll's heroine Alice (8) |
| REVOLUTIONARY | It could describe wheel turning red, perhaps (13) |
| INAROW | It could describe eight in competition consecutively (2,1,3) |
| BIPED | Constant turning when asleep? It could describe husband (5) |
| LITTLE | It could describe women and children and Fockers (6) |
| REFERENDA | The submissions of issues of public importance to the direct vote of the electorate (9) |
