| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| LINEAGE | Descent | |
| EARACHE | Flight-descent pain | |
| NOSEDIVE | Headfirst descent | |
| ABSEIL | Rope descent | |
| DIVE | Headlong descent | |
| EXTRACT | Extraction; descent. | |
| ABSEILS | Makes rope descent | |
| ABSEILED | Made rope descent | |
| SAXON | Of English descent | |
| VAIL | Submission; decline; descent. | |
| BREEDING | Descent; pedigree; extraction. | |
| DOWNHILL | Declivity; descent; slope. | |
| SLOPE | Alpine descent using poles | |
| PEDIGREE | Path of pet’s descent? | |
| GENERATION | Stage in natural descent | |
| GENERATIONS | Steps in natural descent | |
| TRADUCTION | Derivation by descent; propagation. | |
| DOWN TO EARTH | Realistic direction for meteorite’s descent? | |
| GENEALOGISTS | Those who study your descent | |
| DROPOFF | Fall asleep during steep descent | |
| DOWNTOEARTH | Realistic direction for meteorite’s descent? | |
| ANCESTRY | One's family or ethnic descent | |
| HADE | The descent of a hill. | |
| SCARP | A steep descent or declivity. | |
| STRAIN | Race; stock; generation; descent; family. | |