| BOTTOM | Word used to describe the foot of a hill or the bed of the sea (6) |
| HEATHY | Comprising ling, gorse and bracken, habitats forming part of the natural landscape of areas such as the Quantock Hills or the New Forest (6) |
| OVER | Lead-in to "the hill" or "the top" |
| TORRENT | Fast stream split at the foot of a hill (7) |
| COPPIN | Dialect for the crest or top of a hill; or, a conical mass of thread on a spindle, possibly tump-shaped (6) |
| ASCENT | A climb to the summit of a hill; or, movement back in time (6) |
| PLUNGE | - pool; body of water for invigorating the body after a sauna that takes its name from a type of basin or depression at the foot of a waterfall (6) |
| UNEASY | Hard as the bed of the one 23? (6) |
| DREDGE | A net for bringing up objects from the bed of a river or sea (6) |
| SUMMIT | The highest point of a hill or mountain (6) |
| ROUNCE | Handle for operating the bed of a hand printing-press; or, the card game "rams", related to loo and nap (6) |
| CANTOR | Is able to go to a hill or sing in a church (6) |
| CROW | Word used to describe the summit of a hill or rise; the human forehead; or, a ship's gangway (4) |
| STANCE | The position of the feet of a golfer before making a swing (6) |
| BEACON | A signal fire or light on a hill or tower (6) |
| DACTYL | The foot of a terror, so to speak, dinosaur. Could be poetic (6) |
| TRENCH | A long, deep depression in the bed of an ocean (6) |
| STRATA | Covers, things laid out (ppp sterno); ____ viarum (Aen 1.422) the flat beds of the roads |
| APLOMB | Doctor at the foot of a bed briefly shows composure (6) |
| LOBATE | Like the foot of a grebe or coot (6) |
