| BREASTBONE | The non-technical name for sternum (10) |
| NETTLERASH | Non-technical name for the skin condition urticaria (6,4) |
| ANVIL | Non- technical name for the incus bone of the middle ear (5) |
| THIGHBONE | Non-technical name for the femur (9) |
| NOSEBLEED | Non-technical name for the medical condition epistaxis (9) |
| SKULL | Non-technical name for the cranium |
| GERMANMEASLES | Non-technical name for the viral disease rubella, first isolated in 1962 (6,7) |
| INDIGESTION | Non-technical name for dyspepsia (11) |
| EARWAX | Non-technical name for cerumen (6) |
| TOADSTOOLS | Non-technical term for inedible fungi with capped, spore-bearing bodies (10) |
| AUSTRALIAN | Foreign national, first to attend university in retirement, to sail through non-technical studies (10) |
| COLLARBONE | Body part between the sternum and the scapula (10) |
| INSTRUMENT | Device shaped tin across fractured sternum (10) |
| COMMONNAME | Breastbone, vis-a-vis sternum, e.g. |
| BRIEFHISTORYOF | A ___Time 1988 book on cosmology by Stephen Hawking which is written in a non-technical way for the masses: 3 wds. |
| LAUGHINGGAS | Non-technical term for nitrous oxide (8,3) |
| FOETUS | British non-technical spelling of the unborn offspring that develops from an animal embryo |
| TOADSTOOL | Non-technical term for an inedible fungus with a capped, sporeproducing body (9) |
| POPULAR | Non-technical university in part of east London |
| PERICARDIUM | Membranous sac that surrounds the heart, anchored by ligaments to the central part of the diaphragm and the rear of the sternum (11) |
