### Clue: Hills soldiers and devout duke climbed close to Leeds (7)
### Answer: MENDIPS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Hills
 MEN(soldiers, specifically ordinary members in the military as distinct from the officers) **plus**(and) **reversal of**(… climbed, in a down clue) [PI(short for "pious"/religiously devout) + D(abbrev. for "duke")] + **last letter of**(close to) "Leeds".
Defn: Range of limestone … in Somerset, England.