| SWIMUPSTREAM | Take the more difficult path, metaphorically |
| FOOTSTEPS | The more you take, the more you leave behind |
| HARDWAY | The more difficult method is a rocky road (4,3) |
| THINK | Ponder further upon the more difficult answer. (5,6) |
| HARDER | Ponder further upon the more difficult answer. (5,6) |
| NEGOTIATE | Find a way over (a difficult path) |
| HARD | Difficult path arduously covered (4) |
| TOPHATS | Difficult paths to getting refined headgear (3,4) |
| PACER | The FitnessGram ___ Test is a multistage aerobic-capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20-meter ___ test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running |
| HEAVIER | I've moved in here, by the sound of it, and the lift is more difficult to operate (7) |
| THORNIER | Instrument in the band is more difficult (8) |
| ARDOUR | Passion more difficult to speak of in the Queen Vic? |
| DEEPER | Make things more difficult for the plumber? (6) |
| DEEPEN | Make things more difficult for the plumber? (6) |
| EVILDOER | "Nothing is easier than to denounce the ___; nothing is more difficult than to understand him": Dostoyevsky |
| PICKIER | Quiet, more aloof king is absorbed and more difficult to please (7) |
| ENCODING | Commander in the finish making it more difficult to understand (8) |
| TRICKIER | Putting the stack of hay into a row is more difficult (8) |
| HARDSHOULDER | Ought to hide in more difficult place on the motorway (4,8) |
| STEEPEN | Make a climb more difficult, perhaps |
