| ROCKFALL | Tree-top baby's story epitomised at the cliff-bottom |
| SCREE | Loose rock at the cliff's base |
| HARDYBOYSSERIES | Mysteries starting with "The Tower Treasure" and "The House on the Cliff" |
| CROW | Bird noise near the top of the cliff (4) |
| FINCH | Bird island near the bottom of the cliff (5) |
| OBEY | Submit to the authority of someone, or the law, as epitomised by the plant Physostegia virginiana! (4) |
| YODELER | Singer heard in the Cliff Hangers game on "The Price Is Right" |
| CRAG | I leave the boy on the cliff |
| FLEDGE | First flying student on the cliff top will get ready to fly (6) |
| FELLOW | The man who went over the cliff yelled in pain (6) |
| FOG | Haze surrounding the castle on the cliff |
| SHADOWS | The ....... , Cliff Richard's support band in the 1960s (7) |
| FRAIL | The central stretch of the cliff railings is far from sturdy (5) |
| VOLTAIRE | The work of which 18th Century French writer, dramatist, philosopher and scientist epitomised the age of enlightenment? (8) |
| ODISTS | Composers of the originally sung types of lyric poems epitomised by the ancient Greek poet Pindar (6) |
| MARYQUANT | Fashion designer whose work epitomised swinging London in the 1960s |
| GAT | The old pistol found in the cliff face tunnel was from Georgia, Tom, initially (3) |
| EXE | Last June, a former partner of mine drowned in the river by the cliffs at Brampford Speke (3) |
| ACAPULCO | Beach resort in Mexico famous for the cliff divers of La Quebrada (8) |
| MEGO | "Don't let ___ ___!" (Keep your edge-of-the-cliff grip, I need saving!) |
