| Not gradual | 11 |
| Like many San Francisco streets | 31 |
| Like cliffs | 11 |
| Like a rimrock | 14 |
| Hard to climb, perhaps | 22 |
| Extremely high, as prices | 25 |
| Excessive, as prices | 20 |
| Cheap's rhyming opposite | 28 |
| Brew in a teapot, e.g. | 22 |
| Acclivitous | 11 |
| Virtually vertical | 18 |
| Very inclined | 13 |
| Use a teapot | 12 |
| Unlike bunny slopes | 19 |
| Tough to climb, perhaps | 23 |
| Tough to climb, in a way | 24 |
| Soak, as tea | 12 |
| Soak, as a tea bag | 18 |
| Severely inclined | 17 |
| Rhyming antonym of "cheap" | 36 |
| Ready the oolong | 16 |
| Ready tea | 9 |
| Prohibitive, perhaps | 20 |
| Pricey Phish song off "Billy Breathes"? | 49 |
| Pricey "Billy Breathes" Phish song? | 45 |
| Prepare the Oolong | 18 |
| Prepare hyson | 13 |
| Pickle, e.g. | 12 |
| Overly costly | 13 |
| Out of reach, say, in this economy | 34 |
| Of high elevation | 17 |
| Not gentle, as a hill | 21 |
| Likely to tax one's budget | 30 |
| Like the fiscal cliff? | 22 |
| Like some slopes | 16 |
| Like some admission charges | 27 |
| Like palisades | 14 |
| Like inflationary prices | 24 |
| Like El Capitan's face | 26 |
| Like an uphill battle? | 22 |
| Like an A-frame roof | 20 |
| Like a canyon's sides | 25 |
| Like a bluff | 12 |
| Let sit, as a tea bag | 21 |
| High, as a price | 16 |
| Hardly cheap | 12 |
| Hard to afford | 14 |
| Exorbitantly priced | 19 |
| Exorbitant, as a cost | 21 |
| Considerable, as discounts | 26 |
| Clifflike | 9 |
| Be in hot water | 15 |
| Awfully high | 12 |
| Almost straight up and down, as a cliff | 39 |
| Adjective for a canyon wall | 27 |
| Tough uphill struggle | 21 |
| Made tea | 8 |
| Soaked in liquid | 16 |
| Brewed tea | 10 |
| Well versed (in) | 16 |
| Soaked in hot water, as a tea bag | 33 |
| Soaked in hot water | 19 |
| Prepared tea, in a way | 22 |
| Made tea, perhaps | 17 |
| Like tea bags, traditionally | 28 |
| Like hot tea | 12 |
| In hot water? | 13 |
| Got into hot water? | 19 |
| Completely absorbed (in) | 24 |
| Saturated with | 14 |
| Imbued with | 11 |
| Increase, as an incline | 23 |
| Increase the slope of | 21 |
| Make more precipitous | 21 |
| Become more declivitous | 23 |
| Slope upward | 12 |
| Necessitate a change in gears | 29 |
| Make more vertical | 18 |
| Make more inclined | 18 |
| Increase the angle of elevation | 31 |
| Increase the angle of | 21 |
| Increase one's grade? | 25 |
| Increase in verticality | 23 |
| Go uphill fast? | 15 |
| Become precipitous | 18 |
| Become more precipitous | 23 |
| Made more precipitous | 21 |
| Gets more arduous, in a way | 27 |
| Ups a grade | 11 |
| Increases inclination | 21 |
| Inclines more and more | 22 |
| Becomes more precipitous | 24 |
| More precipitous | 16 |
| Vat for macerating | 18 |
| Tougher to climb | 16 |
| Not so reasonable | 17 |
| Not as inexpensive | 18 |
| More sharply sloped | 19 |
| More exorbitant | 15 |
| More excessive | 14 |