| TREPAN | Once used by the surgeon in my pet navy (6) |
| LANCET | How you can let it be used by the surgeon |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Marshall Islands, once used by the US for nuclear tests (6) |
| YACHTS | From "hunt, chase", fast ships once used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates or smugglers, today pleasure boats for regattas/cruises (6) |
| PRIMER | Simple text-book once used by the artilleryman (6) |
| STITCH | What the surgeon put in your side? (6) |
| NAYLOR | Jac __, tough-talking surgeon in Holby City (6) |
| ELLIOT | __ Hope, OBE, popular surgeon in Holby City (6) |
| LISTER | Surgeon in hospital is terrific (6) |
| ASSIST | Give the surgeon a hand, say |
| URGEON | Encourage the surgeon beginning to go (4,2) |
| SMOKES | Ignores the Surgeon General |
| EBBS | Declines to be worked over by the surgeon (4) |
| IMPROBABLE | Unable to be examined by the surgeon? That's unlikely (10) |
| BROWNBESS | Nickname for the flintlock musket once used by the British Army (5,4) |
| FAHRVERGNUGEN | Literally meaning "driving enjoyment," slogan once used by the maker of the ends of 20-, 31- and 41- |
| SHEA | Stadium once used by the Mets |
| VET | Surgeon in the slave trade! (3) |
| THEGOODDOCTOR | Freddie Highmore plays a surgeon in this (3,4,6) |
| INGOODHEART | Cheerful as the transplant patient when the surgeon has put it? (2,4,5) |
