| LADDERS | They enable e.g. salmon to ascend waterfall (7) |
| HUSSEIN | Well-known name for "rock salmon", to a German? (7) |
| BRIDGES | They enable one bank to communicate with another (7) |
| ERASERS | They enable one to have a complete change of character (7) |
| MIRRORS | They enable people to have reflections (7) |
| FISHERY | A place where e.g. salmon are reared for commercial purposes (7) |
| AVIATOR | Eg Bleriot, beginning to ascend by way of rocky peak (7) |
| CLIMATE | If it is about the weather, you have to ascend, my friend, so to speak (7) |
| STEEPLE | Difficult to ascend the French spire (7) |
| TENZING | First to ascend Everest, with Hillary (7) |
| PERGOLA | Climbers on this mountain admitting a brute to ascend? |
| CLIMBUP | How to ascend: show bum rudely in a short sample of the movie (5,2) |
| CRAMPONS | They enable the climber to get stuck in, so to speak (8) |
| FISHFARM | Eg, salmon-rearing establishment |
| FISHHATCHERY | Place for rearing, eg, salmon |
| HIGHTIDE | Sea condition that helps salmon to enter a river (4, 4) |
| PREY | Salmon, to a grizzly bear |
| COGS | They enable gears to mesh |
| ELECTIONS | They enable some of those standing to sit (9) |
| BINOCULARS | They enable one to take the long view (10) |
