| OUTWEIGHED | Ranked greater than, in the scale of importance (10) |
| BFLATMINOR | Sad one in the scale of things (1,4,5) |
| OUTWEIGH | Be higher on the scale of importance (8) |
| TOPNOTES | Are they high in the scale of currency? (3,5) |
| LANCES | Dishes in the scales of Fate: Aen 12.725-6 “Iuppiter ipse duas.... ____ | sustinet” |
| FAHRENHEIT | The scale of hot stuff in fine hearth structure (10) |
| CENTIGRADE | The scale of EEC trading abroad (10) |
| EVENNUMBER | Two perhaps yet further up the scale of insensitivity (4,6) |
| MANSARD | Roof that is steeper in the lower part than in the upper |
| EXTRAVERTS | People more interested in the people around them than in their own thoughts (10) |
| LIMNANTHES | Genus of 'poached egg plant': different than in elms (10) |
| FRYINGPAN | In which you're better off than in the fire (6-3) |
| DISCI | Plural seen way more in Ancient Greek history than in the modern decathlon |
| OPEC | Org. that has more members in Africa than in the Mideast |
| GAMUT | Word originally for the lowest note in the scale in medieval music, later meaning the complete range of something such as emotions (5) |
| FATCONTENT | It's lower in skim milk than in whole milk |
| ADAMSAPPLE | It's more prominent in men than in women |
| OPPIDAN | At Eton College, a pupil who boards in town rather than in the school itself (7) |
| MORNINGGLORY | Slang for a racehorse which runs faster on the dawn gallops than in the actual race; or, any vining ipomoea, named for its trumpet-shaped blooms that open around sunrise (7,5) |
| SPOT | You'd notice it quicker on your body than in the kennel (4) |
