| AGOODJOB | Just as well to get a step up the career ladder, perhaps (1,4,3) |
| PROMOTION | Step up the career ladder (9) |
| THRIVES | Does well to get a shirt and half a vest made from it (7) |
| STAIR | Good man adopts affectation to get a step-up (5) |
| RUNG | Use it to get a step up |
| GLASSCEILING | A barrier on the career ladder through which some employees, often women, can see but not progress (5,7) |
| PETS | Favourites get a step up (4) |
| STEPDOWN | Resign, a rung on thus the forfeiting ladder, perhaps (4,4) |
| STRADDLE | Stand a foot either side of street with ladder perhaps (8) |
| TOPMARKS | What you'd do well to get - when working abroad? (3,5) |
| TOODLEOO | It's as well to include large numbers, being short for so long |
| EVENTFUL | Like the career of a busy show jumper (8) |
| MONTROSE | 19705 rock band that launched the career of Sammy Hagar |
| SPEEDCOP | Busy checking progress of the career-minded? |
| NEWFACES | ITV talent show that launched the careers of Lenny Henry and Victoria Wood, among others |
| WISHFOR | Want and go to the well to get? (4,3) |
| CRACKTHEWHIP | Step up the pace to decipher the disciplinarian of the party (5,3,4) |
| DUD | A bad cheque might just as well be shown up (3) |
| PROSPER | Do well to get music centre in the right surroundings (7) |
| THRIVE | Do well to get the right four incarcerated (6) |
