| MELBA | Old singer, close to stardom, rising up to it |
| INAMORATA | Female lover soon to meet singer close to Madonna |
| OMRI | Some stardom rising for exDallas actor Mr Katz (4) |
| POILU | French soldier rising up to contain liquid |
| KNIGHT | Consider rising up to capture grand nobleman (6) |
| GNASH | Harold at first confessed rising up to snap in anger (5) |
| ADINFINITUM | A noise, loud one, mostly rising up to the furthest distance |
| COUPDETAT | Rising up to cadet rank (4,5) |
| SKUA | Seabirds rising up to another (4) |
| UNTIL | Landed with letter from Athens rising up to a particular time (5) |
| REPRESENTATIVES | Enemies rising up to 60 Minutes almost never striptease, peculiarly, in Congress (5,2,15) |
| HOUSEOF | Enemies rising up to 60 Minutes almost never striptease, peculiarly, in Congress (5,2,15) |
| ANTHILL | See a new town, in short, rising up to house busy little workers (3-4) |
| THEBAYOFFUNDY | TIDES_Often swelled by rain, this Canadian body of water's tides attract tourists by rising up to 50 feet in six hours |
| NARRATOR | One who tells the story of Clyde island rising up to rocky peak (8) |
| STAGECOACH | Film that propelled John Wayne to stardom |
| CATAPULT | Advance dramatically, as to stardom |
| ROCKYSTART | 1976, for Stallone's rise to stardom? |
| TWILIGHT | Teen vampire romance that shot Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson to stardom (8) |
| SEEDS | Have they grown to stardom on court? (5) |
