| INTUMESCO | I swell up, rise up, am puffed up or peeved |
| NASTY | Getting terriers excited - or peeved (5) |
| SORE | Pained or peeved |
| HAPPYFAMILIES | Game up, am I surrounded by mosquitoes, perhaps? |
| MEH | Attention-seeker's turned up - am I bovvered? |
| AMOUNT | Word, from "ascend, go up, rise to a certain level, uphill", for extent, quantity, sum total or value (6) |
| ASPIRE | Word, from "breathe", meaning aim at a goal, strive for, desire eagerly, tower up, rise or soar (6) |
| GAMUT | Boat turning up - am within range |
| NEWSGIRL | The latest from her: city keeping up rise of large lorries (8) |
| SALARIES | Wages, alas, go up. Rise is disastrous (8) |
| ENGORGE | Extract of ginseng or gentian makes you swell up (7) |
| INTUMESCE | Made-up cuties, men swell up (9) |
| SOARS | Shoots up, rises at speed (5) |
| EXERCISE | River to swell up round front of city train |
| PUTOFF | Leave shore ___ about to swell up (3,3) |
| BASSOON | Instrument will swell up, as small becomes twice as large (7) |
| DISTEND | It has 500 ends which swell up (7) |
| OSMOSIS | Function through which raisins swell up in water (7) |
| BLOAT | Swell up as a belly full of food (rhymes with float) |
| BOTOXSHOT | Reason your face might swell up |
