| ZAYSAN | It's a lake in eastern Kazakhstan that's at an elevation of more than 1,200 feet (366 meters). |
| YOSEMITE | National Park in the Sierra Nevada with its Valley at 4,000 feet with sheer walls rising another 1,200 feet |
| WINNEBAGO | A lake in eastern Wisconsin, US, fed and drained by the Fox River (9) |
| AKAN | It's a lake in Japan that shares a name with a group of languages in Africa. (Which is simply a coincidence.) |
| TOBA | It's a lake in the Barisan Mountains of Sumatra in Indonesia |
| INGOODNICK | Satisfactory at prison that's at an acceptable standard (2,4,4) |
| AZIMUTH | Extreme characters I'm taking to dilapidated hut that's at an angle (7) |
| LHASA | Capital city in Asia (pop about 300,000), at an elevation of 12,000 feet (5) |
| ASMARA | Capital city in east Africa (pop about 1 million), at an elevation of 7,628 feet (6) |
| MACHUPICCHU | *Tourist attraction at an elevation of 7,972 feet |
| ATLAS | Series of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, running generally southwest to northeast more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) through the Maghreb, from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the southwest to th |
| ANDORRALAVELLA | At an elevation of over 1000m, Europe’s highest capital city |
| MONTBLANC | With an elevation of 15,777'ft, the highest mountain in the Alps and Europe, site of Chamonix in its foothills (4,5) |
| HENNIGHT | The bride's party is at an elevation overseeing drunken women finally (3,5) |
| PELE | Brazilian footballer who scored more than 1,200 goals (4) |
| PAGES | "War and Peace" famously has more than 1,200 |
| HILL | An elevation of land (4) |
| TSANA | Large lake in eastern Africa, the source of the Blue Nile (5) |
| ARAL | A large salt-water lake in eastern Asia (4) |
| ABITIBI | Lake ... in eastern Canada straddles the Ontario-Quebec border (7) |
