| EPISTEMIC | Relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation |
| INFORMATIONAL | Relating to knowledge or data |
| DILIGENCE | Legal concept pertaining to the degree of care that should be exercised, due ... |
| BASE | Points to the degree of foundation |
| UNDERRUN | Word that refers to the degree to which a programme falls short; the action of going, passing or running beneath; or, the current below the surface, whether real or figurative (8) |
| GRADIENT | From "step", an incline, such as that of a road or a train track; the degree of said slope; the extent of steepness of a graph at any point; or, a progressive blend from one colour to another (8) |
| GNOSTIC | Costing varied, relating to knowledge (7) |
| PRIORI | A ___: relating to knowledge gleaned from deduction |
| UNIMAGINABLE | 'Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is ___.' Lynne Truss |
| TENSION | The degree of tautness of stitches in machine sewing or the dial for regulating this (7) |
| MAMBA | It takes 1000 to get up in the morning to get the degree of a snake (5) |
| OPACITY | The degree of blocking the transmission of light (7) |
| PEER | Any member of one of the degrees of nobility in the UK (4) |
| NTH | To the - degree, to the utmost (3) |
| TREASON | Violation by a subject, of allegiance to the sovereign or to the nation |
| TRACK | Portable instrument which indicated the degree of smoothness of a locomotive and the rails (7. 5. 8) |
| HALLADE | And 20A and 8A Portable instrument which indicated the degree of smoothness of a locomotive and the rails (7. 5. 8) |
| RECORDER | Portable instrument which indicated the degree of smoothness of a locomotive and the rails (7. 5. 8) |
| DIFFICULTY | It's the degree of complexity that's the snag (10) |
| OVERSTEER | Exaggerate the degree of turning (of a car) (9) |
