| FONTANELLE | Soft membranous gap between the bones of the skull in a foetus or infant |
| FONTANEL | Soft membranous gap between the bones of the skull in an infant (8) |
| CAUL | Membrane around a foetus, or part of it on a baby’s head at birth |
| SUTURE | An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull). |
| TEMPLE | Region on the side of the head at the junction of the frontal, parietal, temporal and sphenoid bones of the skull (6) |
| SLIPPEDDISC | Displacement of tissue between the bones of the spine (7,4) |
| SINUSES | Air-filled cavities in the bones of the skull that can be frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid or maxillary (7) |
| SINUS | Any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull (5) |
| SPACE | Expanse beyond Earth's atmosphere; or, each one of the gaps between the lines of a stave (5) |
| DISC | Part between the bones of the spine |
| ABONE | Iggy Pop "___ and a skull in a conjugal hell" |
| DOMINATE | Dwarf skull in a tin, strangely? Turn it round (8) |
| NODS | Agrees there's a gap between the Cs and the Es (4) |
| ECTOPIC | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ pregnancy, the development of a foetus outside the uterus (7) |
| AMNIOTICSAC | Membranous bag that contains and protects a foetus in the womb (8,3) |
| PARTING | Gap between the locks for stud taking in crafty type approaching first gate (7) |
| CASSINI | Giovanni Domenico _, Italian-born French astronomer who discovered (1675) the gap between the two brightest rings (7) |
| COMETOPASS | Happen to arrive at a gap between the peaks (4,2,4) |
| GESTATE | To carry a foetus in the womb from conception to birth (7) |
| AGHAST | Horrified to find a fragment of skull in cremation area (6) |
