| GREENOCK | One of seven Scottish towns to receive levelling-up funding (8) |
| DUMFRIES | One of seven Scottish towns to receive levelling-up funding (8) |
| DUNFERMLINE | Scottish town and former Royal Burgh in whose abbey Robert The Bruce was the last of seven Scottish kings to be buried |
| VCMONEY | Some start-up funding, in brief |
| STOP | What people do in towns to park (4) |
| ARROGATES | Claims Yorkshire town's to lose its hospital |
| ROBERT | ,7 Scottish stalwart brother - bet cure gets fixed! (6,3,5) |
| JEDBURGH | Scottish town's criminal initially reprimanded by "hanging" judge |
| SANDPAPER | Means of levelling up appears to include origins of New Deal |
| NANDY | The current shadow secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (4,5) |
| LISA | The current shadow secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (4,5) |
| EVENING | Levelling up at the end of the day (7) |
| NASCENT | Northern levelling up? It’s in the early stages |
| EVENINGALL | 10 anticipating Tory levelling-up policy? (7,3) |
| STRICKLE | Name, rhyming with a word for a drip or a type of chutney, for a rod for levelling a heaped measure of grain; or, a tool for whetting a scythe (8) |
| BULLDOZE | Use a levelling machine to flatten (8) |
| SMOOTHER | An iron, plane, press, sander, sleeker or other flattening or levelling thing; or, one who evens out problems (8) |
| EVENINGS | Levelling with old Bob when the sun goes down (8) |
| BURGHS | Old scottish towns (as opposed to towns elsewhere?) |
| ACCUSING | Levelling a charge against (8) |
