| SLEIGHTOFHAND | Heights of land vary and deceive the eye (7,2,4) |
| OPENTOSUSPICION | Soup, etc. Opinions vary and may be dubious (4,2,9) |
| SPAS | Karlovy Vary and others |
| PLAINSPEAKING | Steppe's reaching the heights of bluntness (5-8) |
| TROMPE | - l'oeil; from the French meaning "deceive the eye", form of art-trickery used to create optical illusions (6) |
| TROMPELOEIL | Painting or decoration giving the illusion of three dimensions; French, 'deceive the eye' (6,1,4) |
| LOEIL | Style of painting whose name means "deceive the eye" (6,5) |
| OPTICAL | ____ illusion, something that has an appearance which deceives the eye (7) |
| OPTICALILLUSION | Something that deceives the eye by appearing to differ from reality (7,8) |
| SPICULE | Brief ejection of hot dense gas from the outer layer (chromosphere) of the Sun, able to reach heights of up to 6000 miles (7) |
| CONTOUR | Line representing the height of land on a map (7) |
| FLUMMOX | Perplex and deceive, accepting endless cry of surprise (7) |
| BREEDING | The cats born from cross ___ of tigers and lions are bigger than tigers reaching heights of 1.3m when standing on all fours |
| GOLAN | The heights of the Arab-Israeli conflict |
| WATERMARK | Line indicating the heights of high and low tide (9) |
| STATURE | Height of land round ancient city |
| RELIEFMAP | Academic, after assistance, positive it shows height of land (6,3) |
| IDOLIZE | I cheat and deceive, receiving unknown's worship |
| PULLA | Awful lisp contrived to hamper and deceive (4,1,7) |
| SWIFTIE | Awful lisp contrived to hamper and deceive (4,1,7) |
