| TALLSTORY | Stand from top to bottom, a politician finds it hard to believe |
| ALL | Top to bottom, A to Z, etc. |
| AMPLE | A politician finds the French more than sufficient (5) |
| SIDE | Long edge, position or surface to the left or right of an area, object or person, as opposed to its top or bottom; a page; a slope of a hill; a team; or, a television channel (4) |
| REPEATER | One may help someone who finds it hard to hear gun (8) |
| EDITH | She finds it hard to get into shape (5) |
| DOGBISCUIT | Fido finds it hard to eat (3,7) |
| RAZORCLAM | Cut-throat, perhaps, finds it hard to open what they found on the beach |
| SLOWLEARNER | Person who finds it hard to understand careful driver on Ls (4,7) |
| ALKIE | One who finds it hard to pass the bar? |
| EASYCHAIR | Is it difficult to make a stand from here? (4,5) |
| SULA | 1973 novel set in "the Bottom," a neighborhood slated to be demolished for a golf course |
| MEPHITIC | Noxious politician finds success the second time is a piece of cake (8) |
| OILLAMP | Suffering in extreme oedema, politician finds wicked way to lighten up (3,4) |
| DORMITORY | Stupid or dim, politician finds somewhere to sleep (9) |
| POTATO | A jar with, at the bottom, a hole, found in the kitchen (6) |
| ABUTTAL | Act of touching a bottom a scandal, ultimately (7) |
| STET | Let it stand from the first, etc |
| GENERALSTRIKE | Officer's cycle stand from the 1920s (7,6) |
| FIRSTHAND | Hydrogen detected in large plant stand from the original source (5-4) |
