| CORNCOB | Hard skin on foot, chest or back, initially, or part of ear |
| STERNUM | Bone in chest or back? Let me think |
| EBBING | Shrinking skin on feet of duck that's lost weight |
| CALLUS | Area of hard skin on the sole of the foot or palm of the hand |
| RIND | Hard skin on bacon |
| COCHLEA | Part of ear hearing sound of bird on meadow (7) |
| SCALP | Flake of hard skin almost touching soft skin on head |
| PEPO | Any of the fleshy fruit of the melon, squash or cucumber type with numerous seeds and surrounded by a hard skin |
| INCUS | Part of ear suffers - no end of burr in it |
| EBOLA | Disease observed while pulling back fleshy part of ear at midday |
| CRUST | The outer, hard skin of pastries, often made of fat, water, flour and salt |
| LAMB | 1 of 4A hit back initially (4) |
| FOB | A supporter of turning back initially (3) |
| ERROR | It's about going back to religion initially or by mistake (5) |
| EVENING | English suspect given about a quarter initially, or at the end of the day (7) |
| THORAX | Try to catch hockey initially, or a bit of some cricket, perhaps? (6) |
| UNCUT | Like diamonds, initially, or a complete pack of cards (5) |
| TRAILBIKE | Yorkshireman catches train before bus, initially (or other form of transport) |
| DONOR | No going back after dithering initially or following contributor (5) |
| OJIBWA | Simpson is back initially with a Native American (6) |
