| POMERANIAN | Bismarck wanted to save his bones for the dog |
| ILIA | Precarious bones for the elderly |
| MOVE | "...let no man ___ his bones" (2 Kgs.23:18) |
| RIB | Spare a bone for the barbecue? (3) |
| POLLARD | B&B co-owner who bribed a councillor to save his house in Emmerdale (4,7) |
| ERIC | B&B co-owner who bribed a councillor to save his house in Emmerdale (4,7) |
| ABUGSLIFE | 1998 Pixar film about a misfit ant battling to save his colony from grasshoppers (1,3'1,4) |
| ASSIST | “Never corner an opponent, and always ____ him to save his face” (Liddell Hart) |
| REISS | Walford relative of Dot Branning who kept Bianca imprisoned to save his fiancee Sonia from jail (5,7) |
| COLWELL | Walford relative of Dot Branning who kept Bianca imprisoned to save his fiancee Sonia from jail (5,7) |
| SKELETONS | Down to bare bones for sports equipment (9) |
| DARTHVADER | Primary antagonist in the original trilogy of Star Wars who saves his son Luke Skywalker by sacrificing his life: 2 wds. |
| SMALLFRY | By offering this, can chef save his bacon? It's unimportant! (5,3) |
| GLOBETROTTER | Traveller has golf on the brain and it's close to the bone for one of those who likes to cheat (12) |
| MOTHERHUBBARD | According to the nursery rhyme, probably written by Sarah Martin while staying in Devon, who was looking for a bone for her dog? (6,7) |
| NOVEL | "Bag of Bones," for one |
| SECRETSOCIETY | Yale's Skull and Bones, for one |
| NOSEJOB | Sweetheart's in resetting bones for some cosmetic surgery |
| OPERA | Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," for one |
| RAMIS | Stuart Saves His Family director Harold |
