Possible Clues:

• Cosmetic surgery, inconclusive as to outcome
• Very close, as a race
• Drink with food after operation
• Hard to separate, as tot with sweets might be?
• In a word, a breast requiring cosmetic surgery?
• Evenly matched in race for drink with food
• Very close, as a competition (3 words)
• Level of surgery
• Dead level - plastic surgery
• Operations to decrease as it were, perhaps, or close