| RESURRECT | To rise or raise from the dead (9) |
| LUNCHEONS | Formal meals in the middle of the day, to celebrate important events or raise money for charity (9) |
| EXHUME | Raise from the dead? |
| EXHUMES | Raises from the dead? |
| RESURRECTS | Raises from the dead |
| EMBROIDER | Lay it on thick if doctor rises or cracks down (9) |
| SOAR | Word meaning to rise or fly upwards into the air, thus to increase rapidly in cost, size, volume etc (4) |
| MORITURI | One thousand men about to rise, or all about to die? |
| LOFT | Collective noun for pigeons or a coop for housing such; a stroke causing a golf ball to rise; or, a space above a stable for hay (4) |
| EMBOSS | Raise from the surface, as letters on a wedding invitation |
| AGA | Military commander equally likely to rise or fall? (3) |
| REAR | Raise from the back (4) |
| LIFEBITT | Causes float to rise or lie flat on surface (*I left bit) (4,4) |
| 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) |
| DREDGEUP | A couple of drugs to get U2 guitarist awake to raise from bed? (6,2) |
| UPRATE | Raise from three to four stars, as a hotel |
| SHARPEN | Raise from white to black, musically speaking! (7) |
| SELL | Make a bet on the best hand that convinces one or more opponents to call or raise* |
| FILL | Contents of a container; material occupying a space; or, gravel, soil, stones etc used to level or raise the elevation of a land feature (4) |
| BUOY | To hearten or raise the spirits of; metaphorically, to keep another's head above water (4) |
