| CUTLET | Use a knife to draw blood from the rib (6) |
| PELICAN | Seabird said to draw blood from its own breast with its pouched beak to feed its young, thus a symbol of self-sacrifice and motherly love to the nation co-opted for Elizabeth I (7) |
| OPERATE | Use a knife to tear it almost open (7) |
| EVE | She was formed from "the rib...taken from man" |
| FLANK | Side of an animal from the ribs to the thigh (5) |
| PORKCHOP | A small piece of meat cut from the ribs of a pig (4,4) |
| PURLOIN | Pinch some pureed meat from the ribs (7) |
| ACUTER | A knife to pierce, essentially more sharp |
| ALEXIS | JULIAN HELD A KNIFE TO HER THROAT (GH)! |
| ARTERY | A vessel delivering blood from the heart to the organs of the body (6) |
| CABG | Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the |
| DINGLE | Farmer in Emmerdale who went under the knife to have her brain tumour operated on (5,6) |
| AORTIC | Of the large trunk artery that carries blood from the heart |
| INJURE | Draw blood |
| NEEDLE | It may draw blood |
| PEN | A fold, stall or sty; the drift, drove or flock of farm stock in any such an enclosure; "feather", a quill honed and split with a knife to form a nib; instrument modelled on this, such as a stylograph |
| CARVEUP | Show aggression to driver - take a knife to him? |
| CARVEDUP | Show aggression to another driver - take a knife to him? (5,2) |
| LOIN | see 36ac, A cut of meat from a pig, created from the tissue along the top of the rib cage |
| PORK | and 42ac, A cut of meat from a pig, created from the tissue along the top of the rib cage |
