| UPSTREAM | Going against the current (8) |
| UNDERTOW | A current of water below the surface going against the surface current (8) |
| SWIMMING | ____ against the tide, expression meaning 'going against majority opinion' (8) |
| OPPOSING | Going against old president assuming a certain position (8) |
| UPINARMS | Prepared to protest strongly against the current elected members (2,2,4) |
| CROSSCUT | It's going against the grain to be angry, not completely adorable (8) |
| GRILSE | Intensely questions someone on the radio, as one will be capable of going against the flow (6) |
| BUCKING | Going against (the trend) (7) |
| TRICE | Second time going against the grain |
| VETCH | Climber going against the elements and catching cold (5) |
| RIGHTTHINKING | Logical, going against the ideas of left-wingers? |
| EDDY | Religious pioneer, one going against the mainstream |
| REAPER | One going against the grain? |
| OUTNUMBERED | Going against the odds, in a way |
| SINCE | Because you do wrong going against the church (5) |
| ANTICLOCKWISE | Going against the hands? (13) |
| RIDEOUTTHESTORM | Methodist tourer in trouble to keep going against the odds |
| PAST | So we beat on boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the ___. closing line from The Great Gatsby |
| THEGREATGATSBY | *F. Scott Fitzgerald book with the last line, "And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." |
| ALMANAC | At loggerheads with the fellow against the current timetable |
