| ONTHEFACEOFIT | Where climbers may scale a mountain, as it would appear |
| CLIFF | What a rock climber may scale |
| SOTOSPEAK | Against interrupting call for help on top of mountain as it were (2,2,5) |
| LADDER | One may scale it to a run in knitwear (6) |
| COALESCE | Energy company may scale up to amalgamate (8) |
| SOITSEEMS | Some sites needing re-development, as it would appear (2,2,5) |
| MOUNTAINSIDE | Unions made it, somehow, where climbers may be (12) |
| TRELLIS | Right to go over island where climbers may be trained |
| NEPAL | Where climbers may be accommodated in fine palaces |
| HILLSIDE | Where climbers may start having problems entering concealed shelter |
| PERGOLA | Where climber may be trained in mountain, terrifying figure returning (7) |
| NOTCH | A nick on a tally stick; a hole on a belt for a buckle's tongue; a degree in a scale; a level or step; or, a gorge (5) |
| REASCEND | Scale a mountain a second time |
| OSSA | Sailor beginning to scale a mountain in Thessaly |
| ROADTEST | An examination of it as it would be used in real life would be the way to assess it |
| CLIMB | Scale a mountain |
| STICKOUT | It may well be obvious, as it would be quite conspicuous (5,3) |
| SHINER | A mackerel or any small silvery fish with glittering scales; a polisher; or, slang for a rainbow, a black eye or a bright coin, such as a sovereign (6) |
| CLIMBS | Scales a mountain |
| MOUNT | What a climber may do for a bit of fun during a test |
