| UPPING | Increasing (a level) |
| AMP | Device for increasing a guitar's volume |
| ADDINGINVENTORY | Increasing a store's merchandise |
| NOTCH | A nick on a tally stick; a hole on a belt for a buckle's tongue; a degree in a scale; a level or step; or, a gorge (5) |
| PLATBAND | Word for an edging of flowers or turf in a garden; a level fascia on an architrave; an ornamental lintel; a fillet separating the flutings of a Classical column; a level arch; or, any border (8) |
| PLANE | A level of existence or thought; a buttonwood tree; a carpentry tool for paring wood; or, a flat surface (5) |
| ESPLANADE | A level space separating a citadel from a town; or, a flat promenade or public walk, typically by the sea (9) |
| POUND | A shelter for stray dogs; a level stretch between two canal locks; or, a UK monetary unit represented by the "£" sign, for libra (5) |
| ETAGE | French word for a floor or a storey, adopted meteorologically to describe a level or grouping of cloud height (5) |
| STOREY | A level of a building (6) |
| PARKSON | Uses, as a level in a garage |
| GENERATION | A level in a family tree (10) |
| ECHELON | A level in a hierarchy (7) |
| TERRACE | A level paved area next to a house |
| AERIALIST | Acrobat sounding a bit like a level-headed chap? (9) |
| OVAL | Ring before five using a laptop for a level playing field |
| PASTURESTREET | Location of a level crossing in Grimsby, where a terminus for the East Lincolnshire Railway was originally planned in 1846 (7. 6) |
| PARTERRE | A level space in a garden featuring an arrangement of flower beds (8) |
| INCOMPETENCE | The Peter Principle states that people within a hierarchy will rise to a level of their own ____ |
| PARAGRAPH | On a level with a chart containing separate item of news (9) |
