| VETCH | A climbing pea |
| APHID | Tips of climbing pea concealed plant pest |
| RAMBLER | A rover or wayfarer who enjoys long walks in the countryside; a climbing or trailing plant, such as a multiflora rose with clusters of small fragrant blooms; or, a babbler, lacking organisation in spe |
| NASTURTIUM | With edible flowers, a climbing plant often used as a companion for cabbage, kale and cauliflower, depicted in a painting by E. Phillips Fox (10) |
| PITON | A metal spike that is driven into a climbing surface in order to secure a rope (5) |
| VACCINE | Inject a cubic centimetre into a climbing plant as a safeguard (7) |
| LIANA | A nail used in a climbing creeper |
| LIMIT | Professional mountaineer Ed Viesturs has a cameo in the action movie about a climbing accident on K2 |
| AMATEUR | A base for mouse on a climbing plant? I'm no expert! |
| TENDRIL | Thread-like part of a leaf stem allowing a climbing plant to cling (7) |
| ETRIER | A small rope-ladder used as a climbing aid by mountaineers (6) |
| RUNNERBEANS | The long, green pods of a climbing perennial plant, eaten as a vegetable (6,5) |
| HOPS | The dried ripe flowers of a climbing plant, used to give a bitter taste to beer (4) |
| WISTERIA | Fiddle with a wire, it's for a climbing plant (8) |
| WOODPECKER | A climbing bird, typically with brightly-coloured plumage and a strong chisel-like bill, with which it bores into trees (10) |
| ROPE | Cord that can hold the weight of a climbing party or funambulist, or secure an elephant or ship, yet is merely a twist of plant fibres (4) |
| HOUSEHOLD | A climbing gym's own special knob? |
| COMETOGRIPS | Arrive at a climbing locale? |
| RUNNER | Offshoot of a climbing plant (6) |
| OREGANO | Yellow, say, on a climbing herb (7) |
