| MAKINGTHEGRADE | Succeeding like a slope-producer (6,3,5) |
| COMINGUPTRUMPS | Succeeding like rising presidential hopefuls (6,2,6) |
| ONATEAR | Succeeding like nobody's business |
| TILT | An awning, canopy or canvas for a booth or wagon, e.g; a hut; a tent; a slope; a bias or inclination; a joust; or, a thrust with a lance (4) |
| RAMP | A slope; a swindle; a sleeping policeman; a mobile stairway; an upward bend in a handrail; wild garlic/leek; or, an old word for a tomboy (4) |
| STEP | A simple dance move; the short name for a form of aerobics; or, a foothold cut into a slope of ice by a climber (4) |
| SIDE | Long edge, position or surface to the left or right of an area, object or person, as opposed to its top or bottom; a page; a slope of a hill; a team; or, a television channel (4) |
| VERGE | What can be a slope, a space with boundaries, a rod carrying an emblem, or the edge of roofing proje |
| HERRINGBONE | In skiing, a method of climbing a slope with the skis pointed outwards in a v-shape (11) |
| HILLFIGURE | A long man, naked giant or white horse cut into the turf of a slope or chalk of a scarp, as immortalised in some of Eric Ravilious's works of art (4,6) |
| RAKED | Like tidy beds on a slope (5) |
| BRAE | A supporter from the east discloses a slope in Scotland |
| LENINGRAD | City formerly on a slope without a hole-free road |
| GRADIENT | A measure of a slope or inclination (8) |
| PARASKI | Make a flying jump onto a slope |
| AVALANCHE | A cascade of snow down a slope (9) |
| CUESTA | Ridge with a slope and a cliff |
| LOP | Prune on a bit of a slope (3) |
| LANDSLIP | A movement of soil and rocks down a slope (8) |
| STEEP | With a sharp gradient: a -- slope |
