| TWELVESTEPS | Round-trip of six paces (or progression units in recovery) |
| STEP | Progression unit |
| ADVANCE | Forward movement or progression; a rise in price, value or wages; a loan of money; or, payment beforehand (7) |
| FINAL | Conclusive in a process or progression (5) |
| GRADATION | Degree in a series or progression (9) |
| TESTING | Putting engine through its paces, or trainee (7) |
| STEPS | Paces or phases |
| PEDOMETER | From "foot" and "measure", a device for counting one's paces or steps, hence distance walked (9) |
| PUBCRAWL | Round trip of all the inns (3,5) |
| HOMERUN | Round-trip of sorts |
| LAP | Round trip of a sort |
| HRS | Round trips, of a sort: Abbr. |
| CLIP | A rapid pace or speed; an extract or snippet; a wallop or whack; a yield of wool sheared from a sheep or a flock; an old word meaning "embrace"; or, a barrette, bobby pin, hairgrip, slide or other fas |
| SCRY | From an aphetic for "catch sight of", a verb meaning "divine by means of crystal-gazing"; or, a collective noun for a bunch, knob, lute, plump, skein, sord, sute or trip of wildfowls (4) |
| BEAT | A hawk's dead quarry; a hurl or a blow; a downpour of rain/hail; a storm of rage; a rapid pace; or, an animal's skin or hide intact with its fur or wool (4) |
| PIGEON | One of a bunch, coil, company, flight, knob, raft or trip of the ducks with a name similar to a dovelike squab (6) |
| HAJJ | Once-in-a-lifetime trip, of a sort |
| BHAJEE | which might have been sustained by this trip of devoted people in work party |
| DOUBLE | Actor or actress's substitute or understudy; a quick marching pace; or, a domino with the same number of pips on each half (6) |
| GOATHERD | A flockmaster/mistress who tends a trip of billies, nannies and their kids - Peter in Heidi, for example (8) |
