| SURGERY | Process of operating on someone (and another name for doctors' consulting rooms) (7) |
| HARLEYSTREET | Central London road with many a doctor's consulting rooms (6,6) |
| HATCHETJOB | Informal term for a fierce attack on someone and their work (7,3) |
| GHOSTWRITE | Tell tales on someone, and gain no credit? |
| MOONLIT | Trip on fine night could be way of operating on drunken ambition (7,5) |
| KEYHOLE | Opening consulting room with minimal intrusion (7,7) |
| ESPOUSE | Take up the cause, ideology, method, of someone and use it as one's own (7) |
| SEDATED | Having ditched husband, she went out with someone and calmed down (7) |
| IDOLISE | Hero-worship someone and an oldie is upset (7) |
| CARDIAC | ____ surgeon, one who specialises in operating on the heart and its structures (7) |
| ANYBODY | Someone and it doesn't matter who (7) |
| GOESOFF | Ceases to be in love with someone and leaves (4,3) |
| CORSAIR | Privateer, especially one operating on the Barbary Coast in the 16th-18th centuries (7) |
| RANINTO | Unexpectedly met someone and rammed them? (3,4) |
| SWASHER | Confidence man operating on the dance-floor (7) |
| SADDLEBACK | Breed of black and white pig and another name for Blencathra (10) |
| SCRUBUP | Wash before operating on a patient |
| PORSCHE | Ferdinand ---, Austrian automotive engineer who founded a motor vehicle consulting firm in 1931 (7) |
| DRIVE | Trip on fine night could be way of operating on drunken ambition (7,5) |
| URANIA | The muse of astronomy and another name for Aphrodite |
