| TREADSWATER | Is active without making progress or falling behind |
| HANDICAP | Something making progress or success difficult |
| LAG | The act of slowing down or falling behind. |
| SLOWDOWN | He act of slowing down or falling behind (8) |
| RATES | Ranks of ships or sailors; relative speeds of progress or change; or, a clock's gains or losses in time (5) |
| CURTAINS | Word for drapes or portieres; or, alluding to the closing or falling of these, the end, death or ruin (8) |
| REST | Being uneasily active without sleep (4,4) |
| LESS | Being uneasily active without sleep (8) |
| AFOOT | Word used to mean in progress or under way; or, walking or running, as opposed to travelling by car etc (5) |
| TENOR | Word, from "hold", for the holder of a melody first, now a male singing voice; course or progress; or, the gist or purport of a discourse (5) |
| MOVINGTHENEEDLE | Making noticeable progress, or a theme hint |
| SITE | Place where some construction work is in progress or earmarked |
| FREEZE | An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement (6) |
| ROSWELL | The place in New Mexico where the UFO crashed (or was it a weather balloon, or falling space junk or |
| ABLATIVE | It's one of those cases, grammatically speaking, of a barman getting active without Charlie (8) |
| STATE | A mode of existence; an impression taken from an etched or engraved plate at a particular point in progress; or, a commonwealth (5) |
| BUTTERFLY | Lepidopteran with large, colourful wings that is active during the day, or type of swimming stroke (9) |
| STEP | One of many to take to make progress or achieve something (4) |
| RATE | The relative speed of progress or change. (4) |
| AMPHORA | One with rate of progress or a jar (7) |
