| HEADSAIL | Top teachers worry, but it assists progress in the main |
| FIRSTCLASS | New teacher's worry? |
| TREADWATER | Make no progress in the main (5,5) |
| UNDERWAY | Making progress, in the main (5,3) |
| ANCHORED | Stopped from making progress in the main (8) |
| HEADSEA | Possible result of tossing with extra sides obstacle to progress, in the main (4,3) |
| HEADMISTRESSES | Top teachers reassess the "dim", putting it cruelly (14) |
| TROUBLE | Worry, but finally getting money in Moscow (7) |
| SPRINGBOARD | It assists the driver to go up rather than down (11) |
| MULCH | It assists growth a lot, taking in litres (5) |
| HEADSHIP | Top teachers can be fashionable - someone tends to take that position in school (8) |
| GALLOP | Make quick progress in the opinion poll, by the sound of it (6) |
| ANGST | Much worry, but don't start to suspend saint |
| UNSETTLE | Worry, but nations together agree on terms (8) |
| DUNDERHEADS | Dills first demoted under top teachers |
| HEADSTART | Top teachers with sharp competitive advantage (4,5) |
| EGGHEADS | Urge top teachers to become intellectuals (8) |
| LAGOON | The French make progress in the pool |
| WELFARE | If social, it assists recipients |
| BRAYHEAD | It's comes from the horse's mouth - top teacher is in Wicklow (4,4) |
