Brickwork

Enter the solutions to the clues in their numbered layers of the wall. Each word must be an anagram of its neighbours, plus or minus one letter.

1 Surgical tweezers

2 Cadaver

3 Writing in its ordinary form

4 Minute opening in the skin

5 Selling agent

6 Orchard fruit

7 Get thinner at one end 8 Corsair

9 Type of mammal including apes