| (Reach the) highest level |
CLIMAX |
| Apple brandy |
CALVADOS |
| Average |
NORM |
| Band of three |
TRIO |
| Food made with bleached wheat flour |
WHITEBREAD |
| French painter, Henri, d.1954 |
MATISSE |
| Full of bravado |
SWASHBUCKLING |
| Ghetto blaster (slang) |
BOOMBOX |
| In great confusion |
TOPSYTURVY |
| Inert gas, Kr |
KRYPTON |
| Long-standing group members, set in their ways |
OLDGUARD |