| CORDILLERA | A chain of mountains such as the Rockies (10) |
| ALP | Mountain such as the Matterhorn |
| MASSIF | Group of mountains such as Cairngorms (6) |
| ALPINIST | Climber of mountains such as Mont Blanc (8) |
| COORS | "As cold as the Rockies" sloganeer |
| ATLAS | Collection of the charts studied in cartography; one of the mythological Greek Titans; or, the name of a chain of mountains extending through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (5) |
| COMPASSION | Warmth of fire behind chain of mountains tops (10) |
| RIDGE | Ride around the capital of Greece to a chain of mountains |
| RANGE | The service has gone out to a chain of mountains |
| PASS | A thrust in fencing; a route through mountains such as any of the various ones through the Hindu Kus |
| ORANGE | To get round a chain of mountains can bear fruit (6) |
| HILLS | Elevated landmasses smaller than mountains such as Marilyns, summited in a form of peak bagging; flocks of ruffs; or, tumps of earth created by burrowing moles (5) |
| MUNRO | Nobel Prize-winning author of Lives of Girls and Women and The Moons of Jupiter; or, a Scottish mountain such as Ben Nevis or Lochnagar (5) |
| GREATLAKES | A chain of five large, interconnected freshwater bodies of water near the Canada U.S. border (5,5) |
| TRIGGERING | initiating a chain of events |
| ETHANALLEN | Furniture industry name, with a chain of stores across North America |
| VOLCANIC | Relating to mountains such as Vesuvius (8) |
| HILL | Landform smaller than a mountain, such as a brae, drumlin, tor or puy (4) |
| VOLCANO | Fiery mountain such as Vesuvius (7) |
| ALPS | Highest chain of mountains in Europe (and the name from which a category of plants has been derived) (4) |
