| SUN | Like humans, most frogs find prolonged exposure to this dries their skin |
| RARELY | How often soap characters find prolonged happiness (6) |
| SPAWNERS | Most frogs, in the spring |
| INDEX | A human's most dextrous finger (5) |
| SUNSTROKE | Prostration caused by prolonged exposure to heat (9) |
| CHILBLAIN | Inflammation of the fingers or toes, caused by prolonged exposure to moisture and cold (9) |
| BLANCH | From French for "white", a word meaning to extract colour; to make celery pale through etiolation; or, to plunge almonds, tomatoes etc in boiling water to loosen their skin (6) |
| ASBESTOSIS | Long-term lung condition caused by prolonged exposure to a whitish material once used in buildings for insulation, flooring and roofing (10) |
| ULTRAVIOLET | Type of radiation invisible to the human eye. Constant exposure to this radiation from the sun can be bad for the skin. |
| WATER | Frogs don't drink ___ - they soak it into their body through their skin |
| MERCURY | The phrase "mad as a hatter" was used to describe the behavior of hat makers suffering from poisoning caused by exposure to this material. (The Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a fiction |
| ISSUED | Turned out kids regularly with most of their skin (6) |
| AIR | Exposure to this turns casters dark (3) |
| ANDROIDS | Robots or synthetic organisms designed to look and act like humans |
| PTSD | Condition that may be treated with prolonged-exposure therapy, briefly |
| SCARE | Make someone jump out of their skin in regulated races (5) |
| SHED | What snakes and lizards do periodically with their skin |
| PANGOLIN | The eight species of ____ are the only old-world mammals with keratin scales covering their skin |
| FROGS | Animals that don't drink water, but rather absorb it through their skin |
| CHAPS | Those fellows have open fissures in their skin! |
