| SHEER | Like many a cliff or coincidence |
| EYRIE | A cliff- or tree-top nest of an eagle or osprey; or, by extension, any lofty, isolated or inaccessible place (5) |
| SCREE | Accumulation of stone and rock at the foot of a cliff or hillside, often forming a sloping heap, and which can be recreated at the edge of rock gardens (5) |
| EDGE | Geometric line segment joining two vertices; dialect for a cliff; or, the sharp cutting side of a blade (4) |
| CRAG | A cliff or steep rugged rock face; or, shelly sandstone of East Anglia (4) |
| HANGGLIDING | Sport of flying off a cliff or hillside (4,7) |
| PRECIPICE | The steep sheer face of a cliff or crag (9) |
| CAVE | Hole in the side of a cliff or hill |
| CORNICHE | Coastal road, especially one cut high into the side of a cliff or mountain (8) |
| SCAR | A crag, low reef or sunken rock; a limestone cliff; or, a cicatrice (4) |
| BLUFF | A steep cliff; or, from "blindfold, hoodwink", a ploy in poker or life (5) |
| LEDGE | A narrow, horizontal surface projecting from a wall, cliff or other surface (5) |
| ABSEIL | What is to descend a vertical cliff or wall by using a rope fastened above? (6) |
| PLATEAU | A raised, flat-surfaced area that is bounded on one or more sides by cliffs or steep slopes (7) |
| EYRIES | Cliff- or tree-top nests of eagles (6) |
| ROBERTSON | Cliff or Oscar |
| SEVENSISTERS | A tube station, group of chalk cliffs or the Pleiades |
| EDGES | Lines along which the vertices of polygons meet; brinks of cliffs or precipices; sharpened sides of blades; or, borders of anything (5) |
| FIORD | Narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes (5) |
| RUPES | Rocks, cliffs or caverns: scopuli ____que cavae, Virgil, Geo. 3.253 |
