| ATLANTA | Worker breaking 1st cervical vertebra needs surgery primarily in US city (7) |
| ATLAS | The 1st cervical vertebra (5) |
| UPS | President primarily in America for the good times |
| CREDENCE | Study about breaking First Nation's trust |
| THESES | Research papers - the ones on hand surgery primarily |
| PROCESS | Toothlike upward projection at the back of the spine's second cervical vertebra (axis) (8,7) |
| SANTAFE | Worker breaking into strongbox in state capital (5,2) |
| ARMENIA | Workers breaking into song found in South Caucasia (7) |
| ERRATIC | Unpredictable worker breaking strike in Morecambe? |
| CENTRUM | Coin word for a spirit found in the body of a vertebra (7) |
| PAPTEST | Colloquial name for a cervical smear (3,4) |
| ODONTOID | Toothlike upward projection at the back of the spine's second cervical vertebra (axis) (8,7) |
| AXIS | Second of the cervical vertebra, below the atlas at the top of the spine (4) |
| CSEVEN | Jukebox selection, or the lowest cervical vertebra (numerically speaking) |
| LARYNGEAL | An allergy needs surgery in throat area (9) |
| ALED | ___ Winter-Brown, Street baby who needs surgery to correct his hearing (4) |
| ONEOFTHESEDAYS | He does often say this needs surgery sometime (3,2,5,4) |
| EATUP | Take in a group of workers breaking record |
| VICEPRINCIPAL | There's minimal cost in cervical pin arranged in position below head |
| FACELIFT | Dicky, mostly afflicted, needs surgery (8) |
