| ROBSART | Amy, character in Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth (7) |
| LEICESTER | Earl of ---, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England who features in Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth (9) |
| AMYROBSART | Heroine of Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth (3,7) |
| DANDIEDINMONT | Scottish terrier named after a character in Walter Scott's novel, Guy Mannering - I'd nod in tandem (anag) (6,7) |
| DINMONT | Character in Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering after whom a breed of terrier is named (6,7) |
| BERTRAM | Harry, character in Walter Scott's Guy Mannering (7) |
| MEGMERRILIES | Gypsy woman in Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering (3,9) |
| LANGLEY | Sir Frederick, suitor to Isabella Vere in Walter Scott's novel The Black Dwarf (7) |
| IVANHOE | Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine starred in this tale of knights in armour based on Walter Scott's novel |
| DANDIE | Character in Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering after whom a breed of terrier is named (6,7) |
| MYSIEHAPPER | Character in Walter Scott's historical novel The Monastery (5,6) |
| JEANIEDEANS | Central character in Walter Scott's 'The Heart of Midlothian' (6,5) |
| KATRINE | Loch ____ in the Trossachs is featured in Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake |
| KENILWORTH | Market town in Warwickshire with a castle immortalised in Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name (10) |
| RAEBURN | Scottish portraitist who painted the Highland clan chieftain Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell thought to be Walter Scott's inspiration for Fergus McIvor in Waverley (7) |
| MARMION | Sir Walter Scott's epic poem about the Battle of Flodden |
| LOCKSLEY | Name for Robin Hood used in Walter Scott's 'Ivanhoe' (8) |
| JAUP | Alison, an old woman at Middlemas village in Walter Scott's The Surgeon's Daughter (4) |
| DRYASDUST | Dull, pedantic, learned person from character in Sir Walter Scott's novels (9) |
| LOCHINVAR | A young male eloper, named after a romantic hero in Walter Scott's Marmion |