| LIPECTOMY | Surgical removal of fatty tissue from beneath the skin, typically by suction (9) |
| BOIL | An inflamed swelling on the skin typically caused by an infected hair follicle (4) |
| BLISTERS | Bubble-like swellings on the skin, typically caused by heat or friction |
| ITCHY | Like wool on bare skin, typically |
| EXCISIONS | Surgical removals of foreign bodies or of tissue (9) |
| CELLULITE | Skin condition with dimpling, caused by fat beneath the skin (9) |
| IDIOPHONE | Class of musical instrument that generates sound by vibration of its body, typically by being struck (9) |
| ESPLANADE | A level space separating a citadel from a town; or, a flat promenade or public walk, typically by the sea (9) |
| TONSILLECTOMY | The surgical removal of two ovalshaped pads of tissue at the back of the throat (13) |
| ASPIRATES | Draws by suction |
| UNDERGREW | Reed wrung out, had come up from beneath (9) |
| AMPHIBIAN | A cold-blooded vertebrate animal such as frogs, toads, newts and salamanders who have an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage |
| ONAVERAGE | Typically, by and large (2,7) |
| UNDERPROP | To support from beneath (9) |
| UNDERFIRE | Attacked from beneath sack (5,4) |
| BLUBBER | Thick layer of fatty tissue below the skin of a whale used as a source of oil |
| DEWLAPS | Loose folds of skin hanging from beneath the throat in cattle, dogs, etc (7) |
| LAMINECTOMY | Surgical removal of a portion of a vertebra, usually to gain access to the spinal cord (11) |
| DEBRIDEMENT | Surgical removal of damaged tissue or foreign matter from a wound (11) |
| LEPROSY | A chronic infectious disease characterised by the formation of painful inflamed nodules beneath the skin (7) |
