| STARWARS | Green vermin rising up, smashing first Strategic Defense Initiative (4,4) |
| STAR | Vermin rising to become celebrity (4) |
| SLOG | Smashing first record is hard work (4) |
| WARS | Popular name for the Strategic Defense Initiative of the US (4,4) |
| SDI | Strategic defense initiative |
| POPULACE | The people with nothing rising up in locality (8) |
| DEFIANCE | Editor rising up, one who's spoken for rebelliousness (8) |
| MARCHING | Millions rising up centrally on a protest? |
| EMERGENT | Coming fellow rising up in Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (8) |
| NARRATOR | One who tells the story of Clyde island rising up to rocky peak (8) |
| TELLALIE | Be dishonest, and unveil all ethical constituents rising up (4,1,3) |
| ARTESIAN | Water rising up retains a turbulence (8) |
| KESTRELS | Falcons, beautiful, rising up circling half of street (8) |
| ATEST | Defense initiative, for short |
| GNASH | Harold at first confessed rising up to snap in anger (5) |
| BOMBARD | Pelt masses rising up with rod as first defence |
| ICENI | Old warriors rising up in part of London (5) |
| ASUNDER | A star rose rising up (7) |
| DRACULA | Horrifying figure, character rising up, calculating to the core (7) |
| DISPUTANT | Provoker of controversy rising up, outwardly aloof (9) |
