| MALVERN | Worcestershire town (with hills and a college) (7) |
| SHETLANDISLANDS | Part of UK freely set with hills and sand? (8, 7) |
| AUSTEN | Author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park whose novel Emma includes scenes of a picnic on Box Hill and a strawberry-picking party (6) |
| CAPABLE | Skilful international player and a college sportsperson leaving university (7) |
| TELLAPART | To distinguish between hill and a pike primarily needs skill (4,5) |
| REDDITCH | Worcestershire town with Britain's only needle museum |
| LECTURER | Doctor Cutler, the queen and a college teacher (8) |
| PAPERCHASE | Academician and a college in step for investigation |
| BRIDGED | Crossed the westernmost part of Britain, with hills (7) |
| EVESHAM | Worcestershire town in the centre of a fertile vale (7) |
| DISOWNS | Has nothing to do with hills one's in |
| ROTATOR | Muscle deterioration advanced with hill climbing (7) |
| ANDREEL | Month on road with scoundrel, heading for hills and river with fishing kit and collection of tunes (5,10,7) |
| LUBERON | Region in Provence esteemed for rural and mountain scenery of the Vaucluse hills and Mont Ventoux, hilltop villages, vineyards, lavender fields and orchards (7) |
| BRUNNER | Surveyor who explored the South Island's West Coast and has a lake, range of hills and township named after him (7) |
| OLDSHEP | Which 1956 Elvis Presley cover song has the lyrics "Over hills and meadows we'd stray Just a boy and his dog We were both full of fun We grew up together that way"? (3,4) |
| BEHAVES | Is good for honey producers around summits, hills and valleys (7) |
| SCENERY | Hills and trees, on a Sunday drive |
| AUDRINA | _ Patridge, star ofThe Hills and other reality shows (7) |
| CLICHES | "As old as the hills" and |