| STEPPINGSTONE | Means to progress from street to forest: notes the difference (8-5) |
| DISCRIMINATES | Notes the difference acid's making with minister (13) |
| GOONTOUR | Intend to progress from one stage to another? (2,2,4) |
| COMPARES | Notes the differences between the television hosts we listen to (8) |
| ENTRECOTE | Sort of steak got from Crete: note the difference (9) |
| DISCRIMINATE | Anti-reform in underworld wrongdoing, note the difference (12) |
| CASTANET | One of a pair of clickers can taste the difference (8) |
| COMPARED | Englishman was concerned, said Spooner, as he looked at the difference (8) |
| RESIDUAL | As a rule, I get sad seeing it remaining as the difference (8) |
| CONTEMPT | Point up the difference (8) |
| JOHNBUNYAN | Author of The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come |
| TROT | Pace of progress from the start to decay |
| COURSE | Run over the ground with regular progress from point to point (6) |
| FOOTREST | Repair to forest for somewhere to put your feet up (8) |
| NEUTRINO | Report of addition to forest: be aware it's difficult to detect (8) |
| OKAPI | Closest living relative of the giraffe, native to forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (5) |
| RAGSTORICHES | (Of story, etc) progress from poverty to wealth (4,2,6) |
| EARTHUP | Protect Spud's progress from heart attack getting out of bed (5,2) |
| AUTOWINDER | It helps pap progress from still to still (10) |
| GETAHEAD | Progress from result of coin toss? (3,5) |
