| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| LEND | Make advances | |
| LOAN | Make advances | |
| PIONEER | A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances. | |
| APPROACH | To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. |