| ENNOBLING | Elevating one rising accepting new finery (9) |
| REUNIFY | Confederate again saw Union leader dressed in new finery (7) |
| TAXEVADER | Socialist, the first character to get cross at elevating one cheating exchequer (3,6) |
| RECESSION | Slump in the intermission, with no one rising (9) |
| EARLYBIRD | Before term, term one rising ahead of others (5,4) |
| COMPLIANT | One rising slightly in protest, easily handled |
| NECTARINE | 9 accepting new crate of fruit (9) |
| MALLEABLE | Easily reformed man accepting new label (9) |
| COMMENDAM | Norman's like mother, accepting new ecclesiastical benefice (9) |
| ONPURPOSE | Accepting new pressure, our attitude is determined |
| NONPAREIL | Unrivalled hero's upset, accepting new cut |
| POISONPEN | Post Office has started up, accepting new and unpleasant sort of letter |
| TRAVERSE | Two kinds of creativity -- elevating one makes one cross (8) |
| INDIANA | Trendy, elevating one with help when in a state (7) |
| STRATUM | Problem about elevating one who's fallen in social class |
| KNITTING | Joining two bell sounds, one rising, one falling |
| STOUR | Any of several rivers in England, such as the one flowing through Wiltshire, the Blackmore Vale and Dorset or the one rising in Cambridgeshire and coursing through Dedham Vale (5) |
| BADMN | Creedence Clearwater Revival saw one rising |
| PARVENU | Standard place to meet, mainly for one rising socially (7) |
| GADABOUT | Evil One rising in disorder, a restless spirit (8) |
