| CORPUSCHRISTI | The body of Christ |
| HOLYSEPULCHRE | In the New Testament, the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion (4,9) |
| PIETA | Image of Mary with the body of Christ |
| STIGMATA | Marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ (8) |
| ARIMATHEA | Joseph of - - -, in the New Testament a wealthy Jewish man who buried the body of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion (9) |
| RIB | Any one of the curved pieces of wood forming the sides of a violin or the body of a lute; ornamental band on the spine of a book; or, an arch separating the webs of a vault (3) |
| EXOSKELETON | The protective or supporting structure covering the outside of the body of many animals, such as the thick cuticle of arthropods |
| MANTICORE | Legendary Persian monster similar to the Egyptian sphinx, having the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion (9) |
| MINOTAUR | Creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth, in Greek mythology |
| TINTORETTO | Artist born Jacopo Comin who painted Finding of the Body of St Mark and The Origin of the Milky Way (10) |
| CHIMERA | Fire-breathing monster of Greek myth with the head of a lion and the body of a goat, anagram of I AM CHER (7) |
| ABDOMEN | The region of the body of a vertebrate containing the stomach and intestines (7) |
| EYRE | At the lowest point in Australia, the rains of Queensland trickle through to flood, and occasionally fill, the body of water known as Lake ... |
| TRANSPLANT | Placement of the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient (10) |
| RACK | The _, an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim (4) |
| ASCENDER | The part of a lower-case letter that extends above the body of the letter |
| STROBILA | Segmented part of the body of a tapeworm, consisting of a long chain of linked proglottids (8) |
| ORATORIO | Religious musical composition such as Cavalieri's The Representation of the Soul and the Body of 1600 (8) |
| SPHINX | Huge stone statue built by the ancient Egyptians with the body of a lion and the head of a man |
| DYBBUK | In Jewish folklore, the soul of a dead sinner that has transmigrated into the body of a living perso |
