| PEERGROUP | Classmates or upper-class mates? (4,5) |
| PEER | Classmate or contemporary |
| SCHOOLFELLOWS | Class mates (6-7) |
| FORMALLY | Class mate in the correct fashion (8) |
| GENTLEMAN | Polite, kind or upper-class fellow (9) |
| COURTESAN | Mistress of the wealthy or upper class |
| TOFF | Rich or upper-class person (4) |
| WELLBORN | Of good or upper-class lineage (8) |
| CUTGLASS | Of an accent, refined or upper-class (3,5) |
| TOFFS | Rich or upper-class people (5) |
| MEMSAHIB | Address for a married white or upper-class woman in colonial India (8) |
| SOLOHOMER | Something done with no running mates? |
| NANNYGOAT | The desire of a Billy No-Mates? |
| DORSAL | Belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part. |
| RANGER | see 17dn, The term coined by Peter York in 1975 for a young upper-class or upper-middle-class person living in Chelsea or Kensington |
| SLOANE | and 28dn, The term coined by Peter York in 1975 for a young upper-class or upper-middle-class person living in Chelsea or Kensington |
| LOFT | From the Old English for "air, sky", an attic, haymow, pigeon shed or other raised place or upper room; or, elevation imparted to a golf ball (4) |
| BRIDGES | Elevated structures with arches or catenaries forming passageways over ravines, valleys or waterways; or, things arching/connecting, such as cue supports, lens-linking midsections of spectacles or upp |
| PIE | Baked dish of fruit, meat with an under and/or upper crust or both |
| SKY | Old Norse for "cloud" originally, later the nubiferous region occupied by said nephological mass; azure or cerulean; the heavens; weather; or, upper rows of pictures in a gallery (3) |