| RETE | An elaborate network or plexus of blood vessels and nerve cells |
| HILUM | Depression or fissure where structures such as blood vessels and nerves enter an organ |
| CIRCULATORYSYSTEM | Network of blood vessels and organs (11,6) |
| PLEXUS | A complex "woven" rete of nerves or "braid" of blood vessels; or, any intricate network or web (6) |
| NERVOUSSYSTEM | Bodily plexus of cells and fibres acting as a kind of electrical wiring system between the brain and |
| OVERTHECOUNTER | Treatment of tooth and nerve: cure available without licence (4-3-7) |
| NEUROLOGY | Study of the nervous system and nerve diseases (9) |
| FRANCO | _ Franco, star of the films 21 Jump Street and Nerve (6) |
| TARTARESAUCE | Twice pitch, with energy and nerve, an accompaniment to fish (7,5) |
| AMBRY | From "arms, tools, utensils", word for a small cupboard or safe; a recess for sacred church vessels and vestments; or, a pantry or dresser (5) |
| ECTODERM | Outer layer of an embryo, which develops to form skin and nerves |
| SERVER | Computer system or program that manages devices or "clients" on a network; or, a utensil for distributing food (6) |
| ROUTER | Device that transmits packets of data between nodes on a network or from one network to another (6) |
| CAVEIN | Start to cauterise a blood vessel and collapse |
| DENTALIS | A plexus of nerves serving the teeth (8) |
| TALENT | Partner of charisma, uniqueness, and nerve |
| SOLAR | Word that can go before panel or plexus |
| FRANCIS | Jockey turned crime novelist whose books include Dead Cert and Nerve (7) |
| TAURINE | Amino acid found in bile and nerve tissue, named from the Latin for "bull" (7) |
| EARTHENWARE | Vessels and other objects made of baked clay |
