| UPTOPAR | To the required standards, 3 words |
| UNFIT | Below the required standards |
| MAKETHE | Marked the age wrongly to reach the required standard (4,3,5) |
| GRADE | Marked the age wrongly to reach the required standard (4,3,5) |
| CUTTHEMUSTARD | Reach the required standard (inf) (3,3,7) |
| UPTOSCRATCH | Was at the required standard, but had to withdraw, at the end (2,2,7) |
| UPTOTHEMARK | Tam kept hour for work, meeting the required standard? (2,2,3,4) |
| COMEUPTOSCRATCH | Computer a Scot repaired by clubhouse has to meet the required standard (4,2,2,7) |
| UPTOSNUFF | Meeting the required standard, until put out (2,2,5) |
| NORM | Little Norman has the required standard (4) |
| TOPUP | ____ loan, one to bring a mortgage, grant etc to the required amount (3,2) |
| PLACES | Walks round the corner to the required locations |
| STANDARD | Rose, perhaps, to the required level (8) |
| ACCREDIT | To certify as meeting required standards (8) |
| ENOUGH | To the required degree |
| TRIM | Cut down to the required size |
| TRIMS | Cuts to the required shape |
| ELEMENT | Let me point to the required ingredient |
| TRUED | Adjusted to the required position or degree of accuracy (5) |
| SIN | Stray from accepted standards (3) |
