| STAIRWAY | I saw tray making a set of steps and its surrounding structure! (8) |
| DANCE | Sequences of steps and movements sometimes professionally coordinated in choreography (5) |
| TUMBLE | Trip ignoring first glimpse of steps and fall (6) |
| FRAME | Surrounding structure (5) |
| EXOTOXIN | Organic poison released by a microorganism into its surrounding medium, primarily produced by gram-positive bacteria (8) |
| OUTREACH | An organisation's involvement with its surrounding community (8) |
| TANGOIST | Performer of an Argentinian dance with long steps and pauses (8) |
| STILE | Feature of the countryside in the form of a set of steps built into a hedge or fence or a "squeeze belly" built into a dry-stone wall (5) |
| STUMBLED | Missed a step and nearly fell (8) |
| UPSTAGES | Occasionally jumps on the steps and tries to draw attention to themselves |
| STAGNATE | It's natural to keep in step and fail to be vibrant (8) |
| BALL | A spherical mass of crystal, leather, minced beef, snow, wool, yarn etc; the delivery of the "cherry" in cricket; a plant's compact mass of roots with its surrounding soil; or, a formal assembly for d |
| WALKTALL | Make giant steps, and radiate pride? (4,4) |
| TRIPPING | Missing a step and falling |
| CANTONESE | Language spoken in the mainland Chinese province of Guangdong and its surrounding areas (9) |
| ALDWYCH | Street and its surrounding area in the City of Westminster (7) |
| STEPDADS | What Frank Lambert ("Step by Step") and Jay Pritchett ("Modern Family") are in common |
| SEPTIC | Out of step and in charge of the infected (6) |
| AREA | Metropolitan ___ (a city and its surrounding suburbs) |
| CANONIND | Pachelbel work whose chord progression is used in Vampire Weekend's "Step" and Vitamin C's "Graduation (Friends Forever)" |
