| GREASYPOLE | What's hard to climb with Greek, not hard with northern European |
| MUNDANE | Dull Greek character with northern European (7) |
| MINOTAUR | Bull-headed Greek not close to precious stuff in Russian space station (8) |
| AMETHYST | Purple or violet transparent variety of quartz used as a gemstone; from Greek, ' not drunken' (8) |
| PRUSIK | Pair is going north in Great Britain, more or less to climb with equipment |
| MOUNTAIN | One to climb with Ian, possibly? (8) |
| RASCAL | Monkey god gets to climb with no tail |
| MOUNTRUSHMORE | Rock quartet to climb with speed, and then some? (5,8) |
| POSER | One sitting for portrait presents what's hard to answer (5) |
| THESMALLPRINT | What's hard to read in details of contract? (3,5,5) |
| CRYPTIC | What's hard to understand about crosswords (7) |
| TONE | What's hard to read in a text |
| RIPOUT | Forcibly remove joint - not hard with hammer around |
| ARMED | Injured? Not hard with a sword, maybe |
| SOFTSOAP | Sweet-talk, it's not hard with Coronation Street for instance (4,4) |
| CAROL | Woman's work, not hard with top old ladies (5) |
| CAMBIAL | Climb with the sailor - it's all to do with tree rings (7) |
| STEEP | That's hard to climb, dear (5) |
| SHEER | Hard to climb? That's fine (5) |
| STEEPLE | Hard to climb flipping frame of Eiffel Tower! |
