| MONTBLANC | Sick conman admits bacterial disease on top of lumbago is a mountain to climb (4,5) |
| EPIDERMIC | Remedy initially cutting disease on the surface in humans, for example? |
| EXOPLANET | Looking up, disease on the way in alien world far away (9) |
| MATTERHORN | A mountain to climb? Right, another little mountain about to go down (10) |
| ICEPICKS | Sick characters welcome heroic blockbusters sold to those with a mountain to climb (3,5) |
| EVEREST | It's a mountain to climb, the day before a holiday (7) |
| PALPABLE | It's written all over someone's face - it's a mountain to climb for a bishop in place since the last |
| BACKISSUE | Lumbago, for example? (4,5) |
| PIQUE | Irritation? Sounds like a mountain to climb (5) |
| BACKACHES | Lumbagos |
| MASSAGEPARLOUR | End of lumbago with a regular spasm remedied here (7,7) |
| AIGUILLE | The ____ du Midi is a mountain near Mont Blanc, with a cable car service to the summit |
| QUARRY | An area dug out from a piece of land or side of a mountain to extract stone or minerals (6) |
| PIEDMONT | A slope from foot of a mountain to flat land (8) |
| HILL | Type of landform ranging in size from a mountain to a mole tump (4) |
| HOLDBACK | Hesitate to show signs of lumbago (4,4) |
| YELLOWFLAG | Once flown on a ship to show there was disease on board (6,4) |
| HINDU | The - Kush is a mountain range in central Asia whose highest peak is Tirich Mir (5) |
| ESCALOPE | Butcher's cut and run, nursing case of lumbago (8) |
| BACKACHE | Support each mixture of lumbago or sciatica possibly |
