| PITUITARY | ___ gland (small oval structure attached to the base of the brain by a stalk) |
| POLEVAULT | Let up oval structure for field event (4,5) |
| CONCUSS | Injure the brain by a blow to the head (7) |
| GOOSEBARNACLE | A marine crustacean, living attached by a stalk to pieces of wood (5,8) |
| KEEL | Stabilising structure attached to the bottom of a vessel |
| CONCUSSED | Injured the brain by a violent blow (9) |
| EXOSKELETON | Structure attached to the body by apodemes |
| ADRENALGLAND | In endocrinology, one of the structures attached to the top of each kidney (7,5) |
| PINEAL | ____ gland, small, pea-shaped part of the brain that produces the hormone melatonin (6) |
| GRANDSTANDS | Behaves ostentatiously on oval structures |
| RABBITPUNCH | A sharp blow to the back of the head or to the base of the skull that can cause serious injury (6,5) |
| PALM | The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers. |
| TRUSS | A bundle of hay or straw; a pack; a fitting by which a yard is fixed to a mast; a corbel; a cluster of flowers/fruit on a stalk; or, any supporting framework (5) |
| THORACICDUCT | Canal which begins below the diaphragm and ascends in front of the spinal column to the base of the neck (8,4) |
| THORACIC | The --- duct begins below the diaphragm and ascends to the base of the neck (8) |
| THALAMUS | Either of the two contiguous egg-shaped masses of grey matter at the base of the brain (8) |
| FATE | ___-line-(vertical-line-from-the-wrist-to-the-base-of-the-middle-finger,-in-palm-reading) |
| STREWN | A wren, flying to the base of the nest, had scattered it (6) |
| ALTITUDE | In a geometric figure, the length of the perpendicular line from the vertex to the base (8) |
| CHIASMA | Intersection or crossing-over, as of the optic nerves at the base of the brain (7) |
