Possible Clues:

• Treat corpse so as to retard decay
• Preserve, as some body
• Preserve cooked meal doctor's tucking into
• French wife holding retriever up, to make like a mummy?
• Treat a stiff type?
• Mummify, say
• Prepare corpse for preservation (6)
• Preserve doctor initially accommodated in wood
• Make a mummy
• Preserve business certificate in wood casing