| ADAPTTO | Promotion likely to alter and face new challenges (5,2,6) |
| CHANGE | Promotion likely to alter and face new challenges (5,2,6) |
| TURNTHETABLES | Hunter battles to alter and completely reverse positions |
| FASTTRACK | Here promotion likely to be secured by a course of abstinence? |
| MICHELANGELO | Artist, one taking on new challenge in an instant |
| LATEST | Brand new challenge faced by U.S. city (6) |
| DIALTHENUMBER | Call and face the less sensitive (4,3,6) |
| LOSEONESPLACE | Fall behind and face foreclosure on one's house (4,4,5) |
| CAF | Restaurant to face new restriction (4,3) |
| CAFEBAR | Restaurant to face new restriction (4,3) |
| RWENZORI | Right, you and I face New Zealand or Italy in the mountains (8) |
| MARBLE | Rock that feels cold to touch and used for making alters and also for sculptures (6) |
| ENHANCE | Points he can alter and improve (7) |
| AIRBRUSH | Alter and improve (an image) |
| RESIDENCE | Engineers face new church hall? (9) |
| RONWOOD | Stone, Face, New Barbarian (3,4) |
| DOCTOR | Alter and make impure (6) |
| THORN | God faces new source of irritation (5) |
| CEASEFIRE | Eire faces new truce (5-4) |
| NESCAFE | Product faces new endless modification. (7) |
