| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| STEP | Stair | |
| RISER | Stair part | |
| TREAD | Stair part | |
| SATIRIC | Mocking broken stair, I see | |
| STERILE | Spotlessly clean stair? I’ll say! | |
| DEGREE | A step, stair, or staircase. | |
| STIR | Stair dropped abruptly, initially causing commotion | |
| ASTRIDE | A confident walk straddling stair ... Ed became agitated | |
| ROUGHSTRINGS | Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support. | |
| STEPSTONE | A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house. | |
| QUARTERPACE | A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace. | |
| HALFPACE | A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace. | |
| NOSING | That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding. | |