| GETTINGOVER | Recovering from the most difficult part of steeplechase (7,4) |
| SHOO | Film short final part of steeplechase (4) |
| HARDEST | Proverb reflecting that starting is the most difficult part of any task (3,5,4,2,6,3,7) |
| THEFIRST | Proverb reflecting that starting is the most difficult part of any task (3,5,4,2,6,3,7) |
| STEPISALWAYSTHE | Proverb reflecting that starting is the most difficult part of any task (3,5,4,2,6,3,7) |
| PROBLEMPAGE | Difficult part of a magazine (7,4) |
| OVERTHEHUMP | Past the most difficult bit (4,3,4) |
| THROUGH | Having got to the end of most of the difficult part of course (7) |
| INTRICACIES | Difficult parts |
| HARDLINER | Difficult part of speech, right, for politician |
| JAWBREAKER | Judge has wrongdoer beheaded: difficult part of sentence to pronounce |
| THROUGHOUT | You'll have time to cover difficult part of course completely |
| ROCKERY | King Edward planted in difficult part of garden (7) |
| SKY | Often-difficult part of a jigsaw puzzle |
| HARDDISK | Kids about difficult part of computer (4,4) |
| TRICKY | Difficult part of a card game with unknown character (6) |
| HUMP | Most difficult part |
| SHERPA | Ethnic group of people from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas, the ... |
| ARCHEAN | From the most distant point from Genoa father returned first (7) |
| EIGER | Famous Swiss mountain, with its north face probably being the most difficult climb in the Alps |
