| MEZZANINE | A low storey between the ground and first floor of a building (9) |
| ENTRESOL | Low storey between the ground and main floors of a building, also known as the mezzanine (8) |
| BASEMENT | Stand before workers, on time, to get into a low storey (8) |
| ROOMTWO | It's on the first floor of a motel |
| LOWRIDERS | Cars close to the ground, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| NEOLITHIC | Ancient oil in the ground, and carbon (9) |
| ORDERARMS | Place one's butt on the ground and demand charity, say |
| SNOWANGEL | Figure formed on winter days by lying on the ground and moving all four limbs: 2 wds. |
| COUNTDOWN | Peer toward the ground and prepare for launch (5,4) |
| DUMBWAITER | A lift for conveying crockery/food between floors of a building; a stand for puddings etc, placed near a dining table; or, a lazy Susan (4,6) |
| STAIRS | A flight of steps connecting the floors of a building (6) |
| AREA | Live on the first floor of theatre (4) |
| WAITER | Dumb ___, a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another (6) |
| HOOVES | Their ___ become sponge like in summer to give them more traction on the ground and in winter they shrink and tighten which exposes the rim of the hoof allowing them to cut through hard snow and ice. |
| SEASONED | Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life, / Or as sweet-___ showers are to the ground. / And for the peace of you I hold such strife / And twixt a miser and his wealth is found |
| CAMPUS | From the Latin for "field", the grounds and buildings of a college or university; the academic world; or, a genre of novel depicting this (6) |
| ETAGE | Floor of a building, to the French |
| LIFT | Device also called an elevator for transporting people or goods between floors of a building; or, a free ride in another person's car (4) |
| BALCONY | Area outside a window on upper floors of a building |
| ROOTS | The parts of a plant that support it in the ground and draw nourishment from the soil (5) |
