| ROCKFALL | Moves mountains perhaps for disputed island protecting French capital (8) |
| UNITES | Joins peacekeepers on island protecting both ends of Tenerife (6) |
| TNT | It moves mountains |
| GDANSK | Good king protecting French in Polish port |
| RUDESBY | Small type protecting French from the person who's uncivil to the Bard |
| MATSU | Disputed island in the East China Sea |
| TAIWAN | Disputed island in the China Sea |
| CHAIN | Of mountains, perhaps, in wildest China (5) |
| RANGE | Series, of mountains perhaps (5) |
| PASS | Overtake between mountains, perhaps (4) |
| DISPLACE | Move mountains: I'd upset church |
| NOSTONEUNTURNED | Move mountains, Everest one, undulant on moving (5,2,5,8) |
| LEAVE | Move mountains, Everest one, undulant on moving (5,2,5,8) |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | Negotiate track up mountain, perhaps (11,4) |
| STERN | End part we cut from Brokeback Mountain, perhaps |
| SKIER | One up mountain, perhaps, that needs catching on way down |
| MOLTENLAVA | Stream on the side of a mountain, perhaps |
| HIGHPLACES | Where top people move mountains (4,6) |
| SEISMIC | Like activity that can move mountains |
| LOVECAN | - Move Mountains, Celine Dion song (4,3) |
