| BASECAMP | Set of tents or other shelters as a staging area for a mountaineering expedition (4,4) |
| SPIKE | Slang for a workhouse; its casual ward; a dosshouse or other shelter of last resort; or, a wheel-rung-like pointy thing manifesting in the form of an ear of corn, hypodermic needle, long metal nail or |
| CAMP | Collection of tents or bivouacs and the place where they're pitched (4) |
| TENEMENT | Men in the East have a tent or other accommodation available |
| TENETS | Start to enter into temporary shelters as articles of faith (6) |
| RIDGEPOLE | Part of roof of tent or building (9) |
| VENICE | Staging area for the Crusades |
| TOUCHING | ____ the Void, Joe Simpson's 1988 book about a mountaineering expedition |
| BIVOUACS | Makeshift camping places without tents or cover used by soldiers or mountaineers (8) |
| LINE | A railway track; a wrinkle; a very narrow stripe; or, a rope such as a guy for a tent or a sheet for a sail (4) |
| EXPOSURE | Lack of shelter as river pours turbulently inside |
| DARKNESS | Sends out around the animal shelter as it falls at night (8) |
| HIGHFIVE | Greeting a mountaineering quintet? (4,4) |
| CAMPBELL | Long Lost Family co-presenter Nicky makes a ring of tents? (8) |
| BEGOTTEN | Look for charity to put back 60% of tents produced (8) |
| THEATERS | Staging areas? |
| CIRCUS | From the Latin for "ring", a Roman arena for chariot races and gladiatorial combats; a round tent or big top for a company of acrobats and clowns; or, a rounded space in a town (6) |
| TRIDENTS | They show three points on why one should get rid of tents (8) |
| GUYROPES | These secure your tent, or your pegs, possibly (3,5) |
| CAMPSITE | Field full of tents affected prospect, one hears (4,4) |
