| MACHUPICCHU | UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Andes of southern Peru; from Quechua, 'old mountain' (5,6) |
| GUINEAPIG | Domestic rodent which originated in the Andes of South America (6,3) |
| CUENCA | City and Unesco World Heritage Site in the Andes, southern Ecuador (6) |
| CUZCO | City of southern Peru; capital of the Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533 (5) |
| ELMISTI | Volcano of southern Peru |
| KILIMANJARO | Brief dispatch by independent fellow before clash on old mountain (11) |
| EASTER | - Island; World Heritage Site in the South Pacific noted for its monolithic stone moai; one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world (6) |
| TEMPLEMOUNT | Judaism's holiest site in the Old City of Jerusalem (6,5) |
| FYLINGDALES | Site, in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, of an early-warning radar station (11) |
| PERDU | Meaning "lost mountain", a "three thousander" and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain (5) |
| MACHU | UNESCO World Heritage Site in the mountains of Peru, ... Picchu |
| PEARLHARBOR | Site in the news in 1941 |
| PICCHU | With "Machu", name of the iconic ruined "old mountain" or "Lost City of the Incas" in Peru (6) |
| MEXICO | Country with the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Americas |
| ISLEOFWIGHT | *Cottage site in the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four" |
| COLLOCATION | Company left site in the usual grouping (11) |
| QUIPU | From Quechua for "knot", the string-based "talking knots" calculator or mnemonic device of the Incas (5) |
| NAZCA | Desert in southern Peru containing massive ancient artworks best viewed from the air (5) |
| DIDI | 1952-62 Brazil midfielder born Waldyr Pereira; manager of Peru from 1969-70 and Fenerbahce from 1972-75 (4) |
| PRODUCT | Guano is for Peru from its islands? Actually is the whole country's income (5,8,7) |
