| MACCHUPICCHU | Spanish forces overran and destroyed this terraced settlement perched high on a mountainside above the Urumbamba Valley in Peru, part of the Inca empire in the mid-16th century. In 1911, Hiram Bingham |
| FREEDOM | John Lewis said it's "not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest" |
| FLAG | Colours that can flutter and fly high on a pole as a symbol of a nation's pride, but also limply droop and sag from vexillological exhaustion (4) |
| ALPINE | A large tree or a small plant on a mountainside (6) |
| HILL | "High on a __ was a lonely goatherd ..." (lyrics from "The Sound of Music") |
| WOODLAND | Descriptive of a large area covered in decking? Must have destroyed this area to make it (8) |
| VANDAL | A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455 (6) |
| SKI | Make tracks on a mountainside, in a way |
| ALP | In Switzerland, an area of green pasture on a mountainside (3) |
| COULOIR | Gully on a mountainside in island seen amid varied colour (7) |
| HASHISHBROWNS | Cleveland NFL players, when they're high on a cannabis drug? (more) |
| THELONELYGOATHERD | The Sound of Music song that begins 'High on a hill' (3,6,8) |
| TOR | "It's quite high, on a building," we put in (3) |
| CHAIRLIFT | Conveyance on a mountainside (9) |
| SCREE | Small loose stones on a mountainside |
| CIRQUE | Steep-sided hollow on a mountainside |
| GULLY | Channel on a mountainside made by water erosion (5) |
| AVALANCHE | Mass of falling snow on a mountainside (9) |
| EYRIE | Surrounded by lake, unknown house perched high up (5) |
| IMPELS | Wicked types hampering the Spanish forces |
