| MOVINGSTAIRCASE | An escalator in most vicarages? Not exactly (6,9) |
| CORALSEA | No time negotiating escalator in part of western Pacific! (5,3) |
| VIAGRA | This promotes erection of fancy vicarage, not church |
| DIRECTORIES | Phone books for 501 vicarages (11) |
| MANSES | Vicarages |
| SIGNOFTHEZODIAC | In vicarage, minister will keep one for example (4,2,3,6) |
| SECURITYCOUNCIL | Assembly in guardroom? Not exactly! (8,7) |
| COMPLEXSENTENCE | Punishment that is very hard? Not exactly! (7,8) |
| RATIONALISATION | Justification with reasons provided by a Rio Nationalist? Not exactly (15) |
| ONTHEDANGERLIST | Critical of Lenin's goat-herd? Not exactly before time! (2,3,6,4) |
| MISSMARPLE | Who made her first appearance in The Murder at the Vicarage? (4,6) |
| HOUSEFLY | Apply force, breaking church's buzzer in the vicarage? |
| AVARICE | 1,000 taken from vicarage? That could be a sin (7) |
| REVUP | Prepare to burn evidence of life at vicarage? (3,2) |
| BRAY | Boast loudly of famous Vicarage? (4) |
| STAIR | Part of an escalator but not an elevator |
| UNITEDNATIONS | On Sept. 23, an escalator stopped working just as President Trump and the first lady stepped onto it in this organization's New York City headquarters |
| DOWN | One of two directions an escalator can go |
| LEASE | It might have an escalator |
| STEPONIT | Use an escalator to move quickly (4,2,2) |
