| DAMPPROOFCOURSE | A barrier that prevents moisture from rising through a building (4,5,6) |
| DAMPCOURSE | Mist on golfing area prevents moisture from rising |
| AGATE | A barrier that must be stone (5) |
| HALL | A way for going through a building |
| CORRIDOR | From "to run", word for an aisle, alley, passageway or snicket through a building or between houses (8) |
| FEARROFHEIGGHTS | It might prevent you from rising |
| ATRIUM | A central hall rising through several floors with a glazed roof (6) |
| DOOR | A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle (4) |
| KISSINGGATE | Wooden barrier that lets one person through at a time (7,4) |
| CAGEY | Frank's opposite number gradually rising through banks in City (5) |
| TITLE | "Rising Through the Ranks," for this puzzle |
| LEVEE | From "rising", an act of getting out of bed; or, a reception held by a monarch or other person of distinction, just after waking up (5) |
| NOOSE | Escaping from rising tide soonest ? it's a trap (5) |
| ADAMANT | Tough barrier that a soldier goes over |
| FOURTHWALL | In theatre, an invisible, imagined barrier that separates actors from the audience (6,4) |
| ARAYOFHOPE | Rising through time, The Old Man of Hoy's inwardly flickering glimmer? (1,3,2,4) |
| RRDVSAFTQ | Cordlike it is rising through mend |
| RESTIFORM | Cordlike it is rising through mend |
| AARE | River rising through the Bernese Alps |
| BUNGEDUP | Blocked cake from rising, for example, at party (6,2) |
