| CUTICLE | What is dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail? (7) |
| WHITLOW | What is an abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail? (7) |
| CUTICLES | Units of dead skin at the base of fingernails |
| LUNULA | The white, crescent-shaped area at the base of a fingernail (6) |
| HALFMOON | First/last quarter lunar phase; or, anything semicircular or crescent-shaped, such as a lens in spectacles or the lunula of a fingernail (4-4) |
| ROOKS | These birds resemble the carrion crow in size (45 cm [18 inches]) and in black coloration, but the adult usually has shaggy thigh feathers and has bare white skin at the base of its sharp bill. In Mac |
| HANGNAIL | A torn shred of skin at the tip of the finger |
| SCRUFF | Loose skin at the back of the neck of some animals (6) |
| NEARTHEKNUCKLE | Is a fingernail a bit dirty? (4,3,7) |
| IMPALE | Easy scratching skin at the top, holding a stick (6) |
| SCALP | Skin at the top of your head (5) |
| TANKTOP | Displays sun-kissed skin at the weekend wearing garment that has no sleeves |
| AGNAIL | Sore or swelling around a fingernail / hangnail |
| FILLIP | Flick with a fingernail to incite action (6) |
| HABIT | Biting fingernails or cracking knuckles |
| LUNULE | Crescent-shaped area on a fingernail |
| FILED | Shortened, as a fingernail |
| TALC | Mineral that a fingernail can scratch |
| SCRATCH | Scrape with a fingernail, ... an itch |
| IFATALL | Pull at a fingernail, holding back? Maybe not even that (2,2,3) |
