| CARNAL | Cranial injuries without one regarding the body (6) |
| CENTENARIAN | One regarding the nineties as a thing of the past (11) |
| PLANKS | Gym-floor tortures for fortifying the core/guts; sawmill timber cuts; or, a term for those without brains or common sense in their cranial nuts (6) |
| SCULLS | Word, homophonous with the cranial "bowls of the head", for scoop-shaped or spoon-bladed oars used in pairs by a single rower (6) |
| TREPAN | Cranial surgical instrument (6) |
| INARCH | Reversible section of fifth cranial graft (6) |
| NEURON | Cranial messenger that anagrams to "one run" |
| BASIAL | Relating to a cranial point |
| NASALS | Cranial bones |
| CHAINREACTION | Series of consequences resulting from Chinese detective apprehending one regarding lawsuit |
| REPTILE | Alligator is one regarding soft floor covering |
| LOANAPPLICATION | A tropical plan confused one regarding a request for money (4,11) |
| AMBIENT | A male inclined to collar one regarding restful music (7) |
| VAGUS | From the Latin for "wandering", the body's 10th cranial nerve and the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system (5) |
| OPTIC | Cranial nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain, the ... nerve |
| SINUS | A bodily cavity or hollow space, such as one of the air cavities in the cranial bones |
| HEAD | Part of the body that contains cranial nerves (4) |
| SINUOUS | Air cavities in the cranial bones that open into the nasal passages (7) |
| HEADBUTT | *Cranial attack in a fight (surprisingly, new to the list as one word) |
| SCULL | It sounds like the cranial bone of one's head, but is in fact a basket, boat race, oar, paddle or spoon instead (5) |
