| SPANIEL | Canine scratching out the alpines (7) |
| ERICA | Mr Morecambe must get the first of the alpines, Heather (5) |
| ERASING | Scratching out |
| SUNBEAM | The name behind the Alpine and Rapier (7) |
| RAMONDA | Genus of three species of flowering plants native to shady, rocky places in Spain and the Pyrenees - considered here to be alpines (7) |
| GROCERY | Good place for alpines -off centre food store (7) |
| TALBOTS | Alpines, Horizons, etc (7) |
| ROCKERY | Arrangement of stones interspersed with alpines such as pinks, thyme, aubretia, candytufts, trailing bellflowers, gentian and hens-and-chicks (7) |
| STRAUSS | Composer of the Alpine Symphony |
| LAYODDS | Confidently bet that boys will accept half the alpine songs (3,4} |
| DULCIMER | A version of the psaltery in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked. Versions include the Alpine hackbrett, the Hungarian cimbalom, the Romanian E›ambal, the Greek santou |
| EKING | Scratching (out), as a living |
| MAKINGENDSMEET | Scratching out a living ... and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| ROCKGARDENS | Outdoor spaces for alpines (4,7) |
| PASSIONFLOWER | Evergreen plant taken from rows of alpines (7,6) |
| REDELE | The jean who founded the Alpine marque (6) |
| ROCKGARDEN | Area built for the cultivation of alpines, campanula or aubretia (4,6) |
| GRAVEL | ___ makes a good mulch to spread around alpines (6) |
| ASPLENIUM | Genus of hart's tongue fern - possibly, um, alpines? (9) |
| CROCKERY | China, third-rate location for alpines |
