| KINABALU | Huge mountain in northern Borneo, part of a Unesco world heritage site |
| BIGBEN | Huge mountain towering over British city |
| EVEREST | Huge mountain woman tempted others |
| IRONBRIDGE | Small town on the River Severn in Shropshire that became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 |
| CAERNARFON | In Welsh-based spelling, a North Wales town whose walls and castle are part of a Unesco world heritage site |
| ESSEN | City in the Ruhr, home to the Zollverein coal mine, now part of a Unesco world heritage site |
| POMPEII | Part of a Unesco world heritage site near Naples |
| UVA | Campus home of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in brief |
| CANADIAN | Multiple parks in the ___ Rockies, including Banff, Jasper, and Kootenay, fall under the umbrella of a UNESCO World Heritage site designation. (8) |
| BRUNEI | British university employing leading expert from a sultanate in Northern Borneo (6) |
| SARAWAK | State of Malaysia, in northern Borneo |
| SABAH | State of Malaysia in northern Borneo (5) |
| OSSA | A mountain in northern Greece (6,490 feet) (4) |
| MERU | A mountain in Northern Tanzania |
| SLIEVE | And 9ac Highest mountain in Northern Ireland (6,6) |
| EIGER | A big mountain ___ one in East Germany (5) |
| EVERYONE | All that stored in a big mountain? No way (8) |
| PICOSDEEUROPA | National Park in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain |
| MATTERHORN | Large mountain is nasty threat in early part of day (10) |
| DONARD | Highest mountain in Northern Ireland (6,6) |