| FORUM | Debate of rising spirit |
| GUNLAW | Topic of much debate of late |
| DIALOGUE | Debate of European Union progress set back (8) |
| MOOT | A discussion or debate of a hypothetical case or point (4) |
| STV | Which television station hosted the first televised debate of the SNP leadership election? (3) |
| FLUSH | A startled flock of rising or springing game birds; a fresh bloom of flowers, foliage or fruit; a suffusion of a reddish or rosy colour; or, a hand of poker cards, all of the same suit (5) |
| OBIT | It's published of late of rising sample of antibodies (6) |
| ALLYOUCANSTAND | Every one of those addressed is capable of rising to the limits of endurance (3,3,3,5) |
| SPRINGS | Word for fountains, spas, streams or other places of rising, hence airborne pronks, ascending flocks of teal, rocketing leaps, upwardly boinging elastic coils or other rising things (7) |
| INFLATION | Cause of rising costs of fashionable pad ___ something bearing extra charge (9) |
| HOTAIRBALLOON | One means of rising above empty talk on the subject of inflation (3,3,7) |
| YEAST | Promotor of rising cheers votes for start of Terror (5) |
| EPOCH | A major period of rising optimism about the beginning of the century (5) |
| CUMULUS | Low-level cloud consisting of rounded white masses on a darker horizontal base, formed as a result of rising hot air currents (7) |
| CORAL | Consequence of rising acidification levels first signs of ocean distress (5) |
| SEPTUPLET | One of many youngsters certain to pinch pennies ahead of rising rent |
| AEROGRAPHY | Study of weather in unsettled year of rising standard in mercury |
| ACCREDIT | Authorise heads of COVID committee to enter ward, rejecting outsiders, ahead of rising wave (8) |
| THERMALS | Columns of rising air caused by the heating of the land surface (8) |
| EMINENCE | Word for a piece of rising ground; a protuberance; height; distinction or fame; or, a title of a cardinal (8) |
