| CUTLER | He has the knives out for smarter Liberal arriviste |
| ORS | Places where people may have the knives out for you, in brief |
| ABLER | Smarter Liberal I left out? (5) |
| DANIELCRAIG | Spectre actor who portrays the detective in the Knives Out sequel Glass Onion: 2 wds. |
| BLANC | Benoit ___, detective in the Knives Out film series (5) |
| DEADMAN | Rian Johnson's third film in the Knives Out series (4,3) |
| WAKEUP | Rian Johnson's third film in the Knives Out series (4,2) |
| CRAIG | Daniel of the "Knives Out" movies |
| SET | Put out the knives and forks to ... the table for dinner |
| SILVER | For a second it could be the knives and forks (6) |
| ACCOLADES | Praise current cook, oddly using all but the first of the knives? |
| ARE | "The knives ___ out" |
| KITCHENCABINET | Whence came the knives to stab Harold Wilson's advisers? |
| CUTLERY | Terrible cruelty with the knives, forks and spoons (7) |
| UPSTART | One common name for Colchicum autumnale - 'Arriviste'? (7) |
| PARVENU | Standard place mostly for arriviste (7) |
| APPEARANCE | A facade, look or outward display one "keeps up" when maintaining an impression of wealth or pretending to be okay, like the epitomic arriviste Hyacinth Bucket, aka "Bouquet" (10) |
| SNOBOCRACY | Term for the collective arrivistes, elitists, high-hats, parvenus and social climbers as a ruling class (10) |
| STEREO | Noise-maker, a little arriviste, reoffended (6) |
| STELLAR | Sycophants tell arriviste content is outstanding |
