| GRILDRIG | Name bestowed on Gulliver by the 'not above forty feet high' Brobdingnagian girl Glumdalclutch when he was placed in her charge in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) (8) |
| SWIMSUIT | Float petition about what one might wear in the Forty Foot |
| AMIDST | Surrounded by the not so bright coming back up in a street (6) |
| SICKLEAVE | It's taken at work by the not well off (4,5) |
| VADER | Name bestowed by Darth Sidious |
| UGA | SEC school, or the name bestowed upon its bulldog mascot |
| KNEE | Joint name bestowed at birth on Kay's first (4) |
| EPEE | Its playing area is 6 feet by 40 feet |
| AGNOMEN | Fourth name bestowed upon a citizen of ancient Rome, typically in honour of a notable exploit (7) |
| GIANTSQUID | Deep-sea creature that can be more than 40 feet long (MLB) |
| SAGUARO | Tree-like cactus species that can grow to over 40 feet (7) |
| BAOBAB | Tree whose trunk may be more than 40 feet in diameter |
| MEGA | Brobdingnagian kingdom, the bewitching peninsula finally found (4) |
| GIGANTIC | Alluding to a folkloric figure of superhuman size, a word synonymous with brobdingnagian, gargantuan, herculean, titanic or whopping (8) |
| UPTO | Not above United? There's more on the other side (2,2) |
| SETTLE | Town situated at the gateway to Upper Ribblesdale which is overlooked by Castleberg, a 206 feet-high limestone crag (6) |
| HENNIN | It consists of a three- to four-foot high cone of stiff paper or starched linen that was covered with silk or other precious materials. In the middle of the 15th century, it was introduced to the Cour |
| KAMET | A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high). |
| GALAN | A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high). |
| MAKALU | A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high). |
