| ESCARPMENT | Edge of a plateau (10) |
| SCARP | Steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau (5) |
| HIGHLEVEL | Important description of a plateau? (4,5) |
| LAMANCHA | A plateau of central Spain, between the mountains of Toledo and hills of Cuenca (2,6) |
| SYRIA | A plateau on Mars - or a country north and east of Lebanon (5) |
| TABLELAND | A broad, high level area, a plateau |
| MESA | It's bigger than a butte but smaller than a plateau |
| PUN | "A plateau is the highest form of flattery," e.g. |
| BLUE | --- Mountains, a plateau in New South Wales; part of the Great Dividing Range (4) |
| NILGIRI | The --- Hills is a plateau in Tamil Nadu, India, noted as a tea-growing district (7) |
| MESETA | Compiler compiled on a plateau (6) |
| TOPLEVEL | Like a plateau at the highest plane |
| CHASMS | Ravines, gaps in a plateau |
| MASADA | Ancient fortress atop a plateau built by Herod the Great |
| MATOGROSSO | High plateau region of SW Brazil that forms a watershed between the Amazon and Rio de la Plata syste |
| GRANDBANKS | Submarine plateau of the continental shelf off SE Newfoundland, Canada (5,5) |
| ANTARCTICA | Also known as the White Desert. The harsh cold of this continent limits average precipitation (liquid water equivalent) is only about 2 inches (50 mm) per year over the polar plateau. |
| GOBIDESERT | What the Tibetan Plateau caused to form |
| GREATBASIN | North American region bordered by the Sierra Nevada range on the west, the Wasatch Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau on the north, and the Mojave Desert on the south. |
| ACCEPTABLE | Pace nervously around cold plateau - it's the done thing |
