| MUNRO | Any of the 277 mountains in Scotland that are at least 3,000 feet high (5) |
| MUNROBAGGING | The dedicated attempt to climb Scottish peaks at least 3,000 feet high (5-7) |
| CAIRNGORM | Ben Macdhui is the highest peak of the --- Mountains in Scotland (9) |
| ALLOA | Town in Scotland that is the administrative centre of Clackmannanshire (5) |
| COLIN | Netherlands allrounder who made an unbeaten 277 for Leicestershire against Sussex in the 2022 County Championship in Hove (5) |
| SCONE | Parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland that was formerly the site of the Pictish capital (5) |
| NEVIS | Ben ---, mountain in Scotland, the highest peak in Great Britain (5) |
| YTHAN | Game-fishing river in north-east Scotland that runs into the sea at Newburgh (5) |
| CLYDE | River in Scotland that flows through Glasgow (5) |
| ENETS | Siberian people that are at odds perhaps (5) |
| SMITH | G C ?, South Africa Test cricketer who hit 277 against England at Edbaston in 2003 |
| KAMET | A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high). |
| GALAN | A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high). |
| TROON | Town in SW Scotland that has hosted golf's British Open 10 times between 1923 and 2024 (5) |
| PENNY | PlusWord No 277 |
| EOLUS | Peak in Colorado, 14,079 feet high. |
| TADA | Acronym for an offence in Scotland that would be TWOC in the rest of the UK |
| DAVID | 17-feet-high Michelangelo masterpiece |
| CORBETTS | The ____, Scottish mountains between 2,500 and 3,000 feet high (8) |
| AHAGGAR | Name for a large plateau in the north centre of the Sahara, on the Tropic of Cancer, North Africa. Its height is above 3,000 feet (900 metres), culminating in Mount Tahat in southeastern Algeria. (7) |
