| ASSENT | Sanction the use of 'climbing' in speech (6) |
| LADDER | Means of climbing in a classic board game |
| ENDORSE | Sanction the use of red ones (7) |
| ASCENT | An act of climbing; the hill, slope, walk etc thus scaled; professional or social advancement; or, moving back through time, as in ancestry (6) |
| RATTAN | Stem of climbing palm used in wickerwork (6) |
| APULIA | Section of climbing trail up Alps in Italy (6) |
| WRITER | Journalist summons meeting on the subject of climbing (6) |
| SMILAX | Genus of climbing shrubs that includes the sarsaparilla and false chinaroot (6) |
| SPLASH | Making a big display of climbing the mountains with mum |
| MOSAIC | A bunch of climbing acacia, something that's colourful (6) |
| ARBOUR | Garden shelter of climbing plants grown over a frame (6) |
| HANDEL | 18th-century composer, and award-winning variety of climbing Hybrid Tea rose (6) |
| PLAYAT | Make pretence of climbing River Mountain |
| STILES | Means of climbing over rural fences |
| THROWCAUTIONTOTHEWINDS | Live dangerously: sanction the word "without" for anagramming |
| BLESS | Officially sanction the grade below A minus (5) |
| EVOKE | Bring about sanction the first woman's accepted (5) |
| LPGA | Athletic group that co-sanctions the Women's Australian Open: Abbr. |
| EXTREME | The type of sports including the most out-there forms of climbing, inline skating, street luge, snow |
| HERRINGBONE | In skiing, a method of climbing a slope with the skis pointed outwards in a v-shape (11) |
