| ALPENSTOCK | Long iron-tipped staff traditionally used by shepherds in the Alps, a predecessor of the ice axe (10) |
| ALPHORN | Used as a national symbol of Switzerland, a wooden wind instrument traditionally used by shepherds i |
| ALPACAS | In the Alps a car has no right to carry such beasts (7) |
| DEADSEASCROLLS | Discovery by shepherds in 1947 (4,3,7) |
| CROOK | Staff traditionally carried by a shepherd. (5) |
| APPRAISAL | Assessment of the Alps a pair can give one (9) |
| GOODWILL | As two words, a phrase from the Biblical annunciation to the shepherds in the Nativity for amity, kindness or well-wishing; or, as one word in the US, a thrift shop (4,4) |
| LEADETH | Shepherds, in the Bible |
| EXASPERATE | Hack off a lump with Peter's axe (10) |
| PSYCHOPATH | Violent criminal blocks way with extremely scary axe (10) |
| GLISSADES | Slides down a steep slope of ice or snow with the support of an ice axe (9) |
| TROTSKY | Surname of the Marxist who was killed in Mexico City with an ice axe, in 1940 (7) |
| ASTOR | Namesake of a predecessor of the New York Public Library |
| YURT | A portable, bent dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia |
| QUARTERSTAFF | Stout iron-tipped wooden pole about 6ft long formerly used in England as a weapon (12) |
| ASSEGAI | Slender iron-tipped African spear traditionally made from the wood of the tree Curtisia dentata (7) |
| ASSAGAI | Slender iron-tipped spear of hard wood, used by peoples of southern Africa (7) |
| COPTIC | The family of dialects traditionally used by the Christians of Egypt (6) |
| DACACCIA | Woodwind instrument that was a predecessor of the cor anglais (4,2,6) |
| OBOE | Woodwind instrument that was a predecessor of the cor anglais (4,2,6) |
