| UVEAL | Relating to a layer of the eye |
| COAT | Forthcoming great finish to a layer of paint |
| RETINAL | Relating to the sensitive layer of the eye (7) |
| EBENISTE | French word for a cabinetmaker who finishes or veneers furniture with a layer of the dark wood traditionally used for black piano keys (8) |
| UVEA | Middle of the three layers of the eye, between the sclera and retina; from the Latin for 'grape' (4) |
| UVEITIS | Inflammation of the pigmented layer of the eye |
| HEN | A layer of the netherworld (3) |
| OZONE | Short weight unit for a layer of the atmosphere (5) |
| HEAVISIDE | Physicist after who a layer of the ionosphere was named |
| RETINA | The sensitive layer of the eye (6) |
| TRAY | A thin insert for a layer of chocolates in a box, a toaster's shallow crumb drawer, a metal sheet on which to bake biscuits or a silver salver for drinks, each named for their likeness to a treen boar |
| CORNEA | Clear outer layer of the eye |
| FREEZE | Word for a layer of icy dew; a period of said frost or of cold subzero weather; or, alluding to the motionless ice, a halt, stoppage or wage fix (6) |
| VEIL | Part of a nun's headdress; piece of tulle, organza, lace or net to conceal a bride's face; or, something that obscures, such as a layer of mist (4) |
| CLAMP | Type of vice for a workbench; device for immobilising a vehicle; or, a heap of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth or straw (5) |
| LINED | Covered the inside surface of a garment, a box, etc. with a layer of usually different material |
| DAMP | ____ course, a layer of waterproof material in the wall of a building near the ground (4) |
| INTONACO | A layer of fine wet lime plaster laid in sections or "giornate" over the rougher "arriccio" as the final painting surface of a fresco (8) |
| TOPPING | An old-fashioned way of saying "ripping" or "splendid"; the opposite of "tailing" when prepping vegetables; or, a layer of breadcrumbs, cheese, crumble or dough upon a gratin, pizza, rhubarb pudding o |
| BED | A berth, bunk, palliasse, shakedown etc, such as Shakespeare's "second- best" example which he bequeathed to his wife; or, something thusly flat, such as a garden plot of roses, a layer of oysters or |
