| WAX | 1eed on the slopes or the waves |
| PISTE | Ski slope or the area defined for fencing bouts |
| WASH | Sound of waves breaking on the shore; or, the wave effect created by a boat moving through the water (4) |
| MOGUL | Sight on the slopes or in the boardroom |
| APRESSKI | Social activity on the slopes ... or a hint to the starts of 18-, 23-, 40- and 54-Across |
| PTARMIGAN | Grouse that lives on rocky slopes or tundra (9) |
| CLIVI | Slopes or slope's (cf eg Livy 2.65) |
| CANTS | Slopes or tilted positions |
| VALLEY | An elongated hollow between hills, trough between roof slopes or other low point between highs (6) |
| HERRINGBONE | Method of ascending a ski slope; or, a pattern found on Harris or Donegal tweed cloth and garments ( |
| SLANT | A slope or tilt; one's angle or point of view; bias in an article; or, a gybe (5) |
| DECLINE | A descent, fall, slope or slump; or, the sun's gradual setting (7) |
| HILLFIGURE | A long man, naked giant or white horse cut into the turf of a slope or chalk of a scarp, as immortalised in some of Eric Ravilious's works of art (4,6) |
| BRAE | Slope or declivity or hillside in Scotland - "bare" anagram? |
| SCARP | Steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau (5) |
| ASCENT | The act of moving upward; a slope or incline (6) |
| CREVASSE | Crack in a mountain slope or a glacier (8) |
| RAMP | Slope or inclined plane |
| DESCENT | Downward slope or inclination (7) |
| TILT | Cause to slope or incline |
