| GLOSSA | A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity |
| TONGUE | Mass of muscular tissue located in the oral cavity (6) |
| CRABNEBULA | Spanning 10 light years and located in Taurus, the shattered remnant of a star that ended its life i |
| GINGIVA | Technical name for gums, comprising dense fibrous tissue covered by mucous membrane (7) |
| SESAMESEED | Mobile mass seen briefly on river around source of oil |
| HAERHPIN | What is one of the Romanised names of the major trade and communications city of central Manchuria, the capital of Heilongjiang, and located on the south bank of the Sungari River? (2-3-3) |
| ULCER | A disintegration of the surface of the skin or a mucous membrane resulting in a slow-healing open sore |
| VACUOLE | A space within a cell that is empty of cytoplasm, lined with a membrane, and filled with fluid. They are essential organelles, performing functions such as storage, ingestion, digestion, excretion, an |
| STOMODEEUM | What is the part of the primary oral cavity which begins as an invagination of the ectoderm? (10) |
| KINGSLEY | Priestly polymath who was a champion of "muscular Christianity", a chaplain to Queen Victoria and also John Henry Newman's theological foe, but is perhaps best known as the author of The Water-Babies |
| REQUIEMSHARK | Large fish of the family Carcharhinidae, characterised by a nictitating membrane and a heterocercal tail |
| CAPELLA | From the Latin meaning "she-goat" and located 42 light-years from Earth, a star system which is the brightest in the Charioteer constellation Auriga (7) |
| WORDSFAILME | What the examinee said when ploughed in the oral? (5,4,2) |
| CATARRH | Inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially affecting the nose and throat when subject to the common cold (7) |
| LEIOMYOMATA | In the plural, what are tumours made up of non-striated muscular tissue? (11) |
| PALATE | The roof of the mouth, separating the oral and nasal cavities (6) |
| TONSIL | Either of two small oval masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx (6) |
| FLESH | Pulpy part of a fruit/vegetable as distinct from its core, skin or stone; kindred; or, muscular tissue (5) |
| SVETLANAALEXIEVICH | Who published the oral history Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (2013) |
| MAXILLA | (GKN) Anatomy Central bone of the face, by which the oral and nasal cavities are separated (7) |
