Possible Clues:

• Assigned authority
• “If those to whom power is ____ do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised” (Thomas Paine)
• Nominated member needing a short time to get into action
• Assigned, as tasks
• Told off to be having a leg amputated, perhaps
• To amputate the limb, an Edward is told off to do it (9)
• Got someone else to amputate the limb of a boy
• Assigned