| GRADATE | Pass in easy stages and get letters after one's name, though not upper class (7) |
| EVERYMOTHERSSON | Those men will work with surveyor, though not upper-class ___ nobody's excluded (5,7,3) |
| BYDEGREES | How to get letters after your name, gradually (2,7) |
| OTHER | Further letters after one or two from female or male relative |
| NOVA | A "new star" by name, though its cataclysmic luminous outburst comes from an ancient one, possibly billions of years old (4) |
| LETTERS | Symbols forming alphabets, often embroidered onto samplers; or, initials of a qualification after one's name (7) |
| ISAAC | Answers roughly after one's name |
| ALUM | One with '18 after one's name, say |
| MORDANT | Caustic Tory Penny, not upper-class (7) |
| AITCHES | After start of affair longs to get letters (7) |
| EPSILON | Poles in error get letter for the Greeks (7) |
| APRONED | Like some stages and chefs |
| ECSTASY | Joy of Conservative in easy street, drunk (7) |
| GLIMMER | Trace line taken in easy golf shot, right? (7) |
| FLIPTOP | 'Pop'-lift presented in easy opener (4,3) |
| NOBLE | Peer is not a Tory, not upper class! |
| BELOWTHESALT | Not upper-class? Possibly let table show this! (5,3,4) |
| ALIAS | Word used after one name and before another name |
| RELAYS | Sends in stages and in layers |
| LOWERCLASS | Not upper class |
