| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| CHANCES | Prospects | |
| DEADEND | Lacking prospects (job) | |
| DEAD-END STREET | Road lacking connecting routes ... and prospects? | |
| DEADENDSTREET | Road lacking connecting routes ... and prospects? | |
| TAROT | Vista rotter partly used to reveal future prospects | |
| EXPECTATIONS | Prospects were not great in Dickens’ day ... or were they? | |
| PROSPECTOR | One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals. | |
| BLIGHT | Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. | |
| BRIGHTEN | To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects. | |
| HUMANLY | In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. | |