| ASCENT | Instance of rising or moving up (6) |
| FLUSH | A startled flock of rising or springing game birds; a fresh bloom of flowers, foliage or fruit; a suffusion of a reddish or rosy colour; or, a hand of poker cards, all of the same suit (5) |
| SLOPE | Piece of rising or falling ground / slant |
| SHEETS | Expanses of rain, clouds, ice or moving flames; items forming part of a bed's collective linen; geologic sills; or, a poetic word for sails (6) |
| SWIPES | Sweeping blows; critical remarks; purloining grabs; or, acts of passing cards through e-readers or moving fingers across touch screens (6) |
| MOBILE | Word for, or describing, a caravan, cellphone, circulating library, dangling kinetic sculpture, yuppie or other advancing, portable or moving thing (6) |
| ASLEEP | When to strip, rising or resting? |
| PALLET | Portable platform for storing or moving goods (6) |
| EYELID | During forty winks it's still -- or moving forty times (6) |
| CRANES | Large wading birds with very legs and neck and straight bill / machines for lifting or moving heavy weights |
| MADCAP | A collection of songs, moving up in chart, is wild (6) |
| TULIPS | Bloomers moving up list (6) |
| UTOPIA | Moving up to A1 in perfect state (6) |
| SEVRES | Does moving up river in China (6) |
| PURSUE | Moving up, sure to give chase (6) |
| STAIRS | Mixes with impressive leading author, as a means of moving up in the world |
| SLIPUP | Moving up students by mistake |
| PRUSIK | Moving up with risk - mountaineer's sling is the answer |
| GIOTTO | Probe excessively, intermittently moving up |
| TSHIRT | Having strong desire, succeeded moving up top (1-5) |
