| MENDIPS | Hill range location of Cheddar Gorge (7) |
| MENDIPHILLS | Location of Cheddar Gorge (6,5) |
| GEORGIC | One bit of Cheddar Gorge stimulated rural ode (7) |
| SOMERSET | County, site of Cheddar Gorge and Glastonbury Tor (8) |
| PINKS | Flowers related to carnations and sweet williams, such as the wild firewitch of Cheddar Gorge (5) |
| ABRIDGE | Trim graduate climbing hill-range (7) |
| NANTLLE | Hill range connecting several Snowdon summits - lit Greenland, oddly! (7,5) |
| CHEVIOT | The ____ Hills, range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border (7) |
| MALVERN | - Hills, range in England whose highest peak is Worcestershire Beacon (7) |
| RAREBIT | Pieces of Cheddar are bitten eating this? (7) |
| PERCHED | Sat and finished supper with a bit of cheddar (7) |
| REGORGE | On sight of Cheddar, vomit |
| MENDIFHILLS | An area of outstanding natural beauty in Somerset, the location of Wookey Hole and Cheddar Gorge (6,5) |
| THEMENDIPS | Informally, the range of hills in which Cheddar Gorge lies |
| RIDGE | Strip of arable land between furrows characteristic of a medieval field; a rooftree; or, a hill-range (5) |
| CHILTERNS | Hill range north of the Thames valley, source of River Lea (9) |
| JACOBS | Flight of steps at Cheddar Gorge and a Sidmouth beach (6,6) |
| LADDER | Flight of steps at Cheddar Gorge and a Sidmouth beach (6,6) |
| PINK | A minnow; a coastal fishing boat; a tinkling sound; a chaffinch; the gillyflower allied to the carnation, Cheddar Gorge "firewitch", sweet william and other "flowers of Zeus" in the genus Dianthus or, |
| ARGO | Old vessel found in Cheddar Gorge |