| HAWTHORNS | Football league ground which is the highest above sea level in the Premier League |
| ABBEYSTADIUM | Home ground of Cambridge United, the first Football League ground name to use its second word |
| SUPREME | Highest, above all others (7) |
| LEEDS | City which is home to Headingley cricket ground, which hosted its first Test in 1899 (5) |
| VLEI | Area of low-lying ground which floods in the rainy season (Afrikaans) |
| QUICKSAND | Ground which sucks! (9) |
| DEATH | Arid desert basin in California and Nevada that includes the lowest point below sea level in the Wes |
| CHALLENGER | - Deep; situated around 11km below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point in Earth |
| VALLEY | Arid desert basin in California and Nevada that includes the lowest point below sea level in the Western Hemisphere (5,6) |
| BENNEVIS | Munro in the Grampians which is the highest mountain in the British Isles and one of the ascents for |
| CHIMBSRAZO | Volcano rising to 20,564 ft which is the highest point in Ecuador and one of the highest in the world (10) |
| TARAU | Romansch name of the renowned Swiss resort and billionaires' playground Davos, which is the highest town in Europe and the site of the vast Parsenn ski run (5) |
| SOUFRIERE | La -; active stratovolcano in Guadeloupe which is the highest mountain peak in the Lesser Antilles (9) |
| NEVIS | Ben -; munro dominating the landscape of Fort William which is the highest mountain in the British Isles (5) |
| PARADISO | Mountain in the Graian Alps which is the highest mountain entirely in Italy (4,8) |
| GRAN | Mountain in the Graian Alps which is the highest mountain entirely in Italy (4) |
| RAINIER | Mount -, mountain in the Cascade Range which is the highest in Washington state (7) |
| SCAFELLPIKE | Mountain in the Lake District which is the highest peak in England (7,4) |
| ZIYECH | Dutch-born midfielder who plays for Chelsea in the Premier League; he was a member of the Dutch national team in his early international matches before joining Morocco's team in 2015 and then represen |
| EGILOLSEN | The first Norwegian to manage in the Premier League when he became manager of Wimbledon in 1999 |