| HITCHHIKE | Travel by lifts |
| STAIRS | Increasingly being complemented by lifts and escalators at stations to improve access (6) |
| STEALTHY | Skulking by lift, they drop key (8) |
| DUMBWAITER | Unintelligent person standing by lift |
| TAKEAWAY | Restaurant reached by lift and a passage |
| WOUNDUP | Injury by lift hacked one off |
| BEATTY | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| HEART | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| ELM | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| SPOON | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| TAIL | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| NOISE | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| MORE | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| LIMIT | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| TALE | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| ORDER | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| DOGS | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| GRASS | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| TOMORROW | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |
| TOM | Vicissitudes experienced by lift operators (3,3,5) |