| CLIMBERS | Vines such as traveller's joy, ivy or morning glory; mountaineers; or, hill cyclists, also called grimpeurs (8) |
| OLDMANSBEARD | Any of various plants having a white feathery appearance, such as traveller's joy or Spanish moss |
| CLEMATIS | Plant such as traveller's joy (8) |
| CREEPERS | Vines such as ivies; little birds that spiral up tree trunks; or, wheeled platforms for sliding under cars (8) |
| TRELLIS | Latticework for supporting ivies, rambling roses and vines such as jasmine, wisteria and clematis (7) |
| GUIDE | General word for a person conducting a group of mountaineers or tourists; or, a type of book such as a Baedeker (5) |
| VINE | Jasmine or morning glory |
| ROPES | Groups of interconnected climbers/ mountaineers; or, strings of pearls (5) |
| ETRIER | Mountaineer or climber's ladder or aider of rope or webbing used with a fifi hook or karabiner (6) |
| ROCKCLIMBER | Type of mountaineer ... or a theme hint |
| CREEPER | A bird that runs or spirals up and down tree trunks; a daisy-cutter in cricket; or, a vine such as the clematis, periwinkle or woodbine |
| SOFTFRUIT | A small characteristically stoneless squishable food of bramble, cane, earth or vine, such as a blackberry, goosegog, grape, rasp, redcurrant or strawberry (4,5) |
| EVERGREENS | Plants or trees in leaf throughout the year, such as Scots pines, Norway spruces, holly, mistletoe, ivy or heather (10) |
| HELIX | A spiral shape or form, as observed in a trail of ivy or in the "twisted ladder of life" called DNA (5) |
| CUTAWAYS | Diagrams, film clips or morning coats, but all characteristically chopped, edited, shorn, snipped or trimmed (8) |
| RANGE | Series of mountains or hills; or, a type of stove such as an Aga (5) |
| BUMNOTES | Caused by singing off key, a hobo's scribblings or morning flatulence? (3,5) |
| TOR | As far as the top of the ridge, or hill (3) |
| ASCENT | Walk, climb or bike ride to the summit of a mountain or hill (6) |
| FOOT | A manner of walking; 12 inches; or, the bottom of a page or hill (4) |
