| REACT | Rise or fall due to global events, as the stock market |
| LEAGUE | Lead guitarist in red, the French fever with large, disorderly crowd outside excited for global event (5,6,5,3) |
| WORLDCUP | Lead guitarist in red, the French fever with large, disorderly crowd outside excited for global event (5,6,5,3) |
| RUGBY | Lead guitarist in red, the French fever with large, disorderly crowd outside excited for global event (5,6,5,3) |
| WWI | Global event from 1914-1918, for short |
| GAMES | Gym fitted with a special ramp for global event (10,5) |
| PARALYMPIC | Gym fitted with a special ramp for global event (10,5) |
| TUMBLESDOWNWARD | Starts to crash, as the stock market |
| GLACIER | River of ice (likely to be in retreat due to global warming) |
| SLID | Dropped a bit, as the stock market |
| ADIVE | Take ___ (go down quickly, as the stock market) (2 wds.) |
| FLOW | A current, such as the rise or advancing of a tide, as opposed to its ebb; or, by extension, any continuous or fluent stream of something, such as people, progress, wine or words (4) |
| UNDERTHEWEATHER | How too many people feel today, due to global warming, sad to say? (5,3,7) |
| HEMLINE | It may rise or fall _ depending on the times (3-4) |
| AGA | Military commander equally likely to rise or fall? (3) |
| REDDER | More sore on the rise or fall? (6) |
| MONOTONE | Without rise or fall voice has no 'No'; to me, that's wrong (8) |
| THERMOMETERS | They rise or fall to some degree |
| SHELF | Something that might splinter due to global warming |
| LEAFMOULD | Compost from month in fall, due to decay? |