| BLAVEN | Anglicised name of the rocky isolated peak of the Black Cuillin of Skye (6) |
| GLENBRITTLE | Area of Skye west of Black Cuillin (4,7) |
| NUNATAK | Isolated peak nobody attempts to scale, do we hear? |
| TOR | Isolated peak |
| DUNCAN | The anglicised name of two Scottish kings (1034-40, 1094),the latter of whom married Ethelreda of Northumbria (6) |
| ELBERT | Highest peak of the Rocky Mountains, in the Sawatch range in central Colorado (6) |
| MASALA | Highest peak of the Balkan Peninsula, in Bulgaria in the Rila Mountains (6) |
| OPORTO | The anglicised name for Portugal's secondlargest city (6) |
| OBRIEN | Surname of the writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (6) |
| DENVER | State capital of Colorado, in the South Platte River Valley east of the Rocky Mountains (6) |
| CONNAUGHT | Anglicised name of the province of the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo (9) |
| GLENDOWER | Known as the Welsh Braveheart, the anglicised name of the chieftain who led a revolt against Henry IV and declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400 (9) |
| MAJORCA | Anglicised name of the largest of the Balearic Islands (7) |
| ELBRUS | Mount ___, dormant volcano; highest peak of the Caucasus (6) |
| ULANBATOR | Anglicised name of the capital city of Mongolia, known until 1924 as Urga (4,5) |
| SHASTA | Volcanic peak of the Cascades |
| ROBSON | Highest peak of the Canadian Rockies |
| MTCOOK | Highest peak of the Southern Alps |
| SWAZI | Anglicised name of the southern African people who, under Sobhuza I and his son Mswati II, established a nation now known as Eswatini in the early 19th century (5) |
| APOLLO | Creed of the "Rocky" series |
