### Clue: Surgery as answer to disease that in extremis takes time (9)
### Answer: CURETTAGE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Surgery
**CURE** ("answer to disease") + **T**(ha)**T** [in extremis] *takes ***AGE **("time") 
*Curettage is an operation which involves the scooping out of something, and, alongside dilation is the C in D&C.