| VERTIGO | Fear of heights, or a Hitchcock classic starring Kim Novak (7) |
| SIZEISM | Discrimination on the grounds of height or girth |
| EMINENCE | From "jut, project", a word for distinction, fame or high rank; a height or a hill; an anatomical protuberance; a cardinal's title; or, a shade of purple (8) |
| BRONTE | "Wuthering Heights" or "Jane Eyre" author |
| SPRING | A fountainhead; the rise of the sea to its extreme height; or, a beginning, birth, dawn or freshest time, hence the vernal season of growth, when buds and plants bloom and burst forth (6) |
| STILT | Prop for increasing one's height; or, a piloti (5) |
| TOPAZ | November birthstone or a Hitchcock movie |
| ETHER | Heavenly heights or anaesthetic? I am not into either! (5) |
| VERTICO | Hitchcock thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak (7) |
| STATURE | Height or esteem of a person |
| AGENORM | Benchmark for a two-year-old's height or weight, say |
| PALJOEY | Frank Sinatra-Kim Novak classic |
| ALPINES | Natives of heights plane is to transport |
| ACRO | The "height" part of a fear of heights |
| IRONIC | Like a pilot with a fear of heights |
| ACROPHOBE | A person with a morbid fear of heights (9) |
| THELEGENDOF | 1968 film drama starring Kim Novak in the title role (3,6,2,10) |
| LYLAHCLARE | 1968 film drama starring Kim Novak in the title role (5,5) |
| ACROPHOBIA | Extreme or irrational fear of heights (10) |
| STEEPLEJACK | Worker with no fear of heights (11) |
