| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| RATING | Ranking | |
| PREMIER | Top-ranking | |
| KINGS | High-ranking cards | |
| GENERAL | High-ranking officer | |
| DUKE | High-ranking nobleman | |
| SENIOR | Older; higher-ranking | |
| EARLS | High-ranking lords | |
| SUBORDINATE | Lower ranking | |
| BARON | Low-ranking nobleman | |
| DUKES | Highest ranking peers | |
| SEEDING | Ranking (in tennis) | |
| PROFESSOR | High ranking academic | |
| PRELATE | High ranking ecclesiastic | |
| BEGUM | High-ranking Muslim woman | |
| TOPBRASS | High-ranking officers or leaders | |
| CHERUBIM | Angels ranking below seraphim | |
| PASHA | High ranking Turkish officer | |
| COMMISSIONERS | High-ranking police officers who order artworks? | |
| LANCE | Prefix that lowers ranking of corporal | |
| BRASSERIE | High-ranking officers seen before queen, that is, in cheap restaurant | |
| COMMANDER | An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. | |
| ARRAY | A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause. | |
| COLONEL | The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general. | |
| INTERNUNCIO | A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio. | |
| CAPTAIN | An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army. | |