| MTKENYA | Africa's second highest peak |
| KENYA | Mount ___, Africa's second-highest peak |
| MOUNTKENYA | Africa's second-highest peak, which shares its name with one of the five countries recently elected to the U.N. Security Council; the other four are in the other theme entries |
| SHASTA | Second-highest peak in the Cascades |
| FABER | Singapore's second highest peak |
| MTST | ___ Elias (Canada's second highest peak) |
| MTDANA | Yosemite's second-highest peak |
| NANDA | ___ Devi (second-highest peak in India) |
| DAPSANG | Primarily known as K2, Mount Godwin-Austen or the Savage Mountain, the second-highest peak in the wo |
| VELETA | Pico del ___, second highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range, Spain (6) |
| YESTOR | What's the second highest peak on Dartmoor? Crossword setter changes answer at first (3,3) |
| POPOCATEPETL | Active volcano in Puebla which is the second-highest peak in Mexico (12) |
| CAIRNGORMS | Mountain range of which Ben Macdui is the second highest peak (9) |
| ALPS | Mountain range with Monte Rosa as its second-highest peak (4) |
| STELIAS | Mt. ___. ___ (Canada's second highest peak, it's on the Yukon/Alaska border) |
| MEIKLEBIN | At 570m the second highest peak in the Campsie Fells (6,3) |
| ROTERKNOPF | The second-highest peak in the Schober group of the Austrian Alps (5,5) |
| THABOMBEKI | South Africa's second post-apartheid president |
| LAGOS | Africa's second largest city |
| CONGO | Africa's second longest river (5) |
