The Musculoskeletal System

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Ancient flute that shares its Latin moniker with the shin (5)
• Spoke of a circle that rolls the thumb side of the wrist (6)
• Architectural wrapping paper enclosing muscle bellies and bundles (6)
• Heavy thigh timber that bears the brunt of bipedal strides (5)
• Shoulder shovel enabling winged aspirations of the arms (7)
• Forearm pillar that sounds like an anagram of luna (4)
• Vascular sleeve cloaking living bone with pain receptors (10)
• Little musical key perched across the chest as a strut (8)
• Climb a tree rapidly, or take a cruel blow below the patella (4)
• Thin filament that dances with thick myosin during a flex (5)
• Tough collagen cable tethering brute force to calcified levers (6)
• Strip clean before carving, or rigid osteocyte colony (4)

Down

• Two-headed flexor celebrated by rolled-up sleeves (6)
• Crumbly residue of roasted ore, or heel point in archaic anatomy (4)
• Tease, or provide protection for the pulmonary realm (3)
• Rich garden loam that sounds deceptively like the upper arm bone (5)
• Dagger-shaped breastplate docking the ribs at center stage (7)
• Demolition crew remodeling bone via acid dissolution (10)
• English physician Clopton's namesake canal network in compact bone (9)
• Gristly shock absorber lining articular ends without blood vessels (9)
• Chatter endlessly, or frame an underbite (3)
• Closet resident that provides the internal framework of mankind (8)
• Alliance of foes, or second cervical support pivoting the skull (4)
• Joint that might deliver a jerky, involuntary reflex (4)

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