| TARTAN | Any of various patterns or "setts" woven into cloth that are symbolic of Highland clans and iconic of Scottish heritage (6) |
| CAUSEWAY | A road paved with cobblestones or setts; or, a path or track raised above a marsh, sand, water etc (8) |
| ARMS | Guns that are symbolic? (4) |
| UNCLASP | Up to squeeze unruly clans and then release one's grip (7) |
| MCDONALD | One of the largest Scottish Highland clans, historically known as Lords of the Isles (8) |
| SEPT | Highland clan |
| 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) |
| DOGSTOOTH | --- --- check, a pattern of broken or jagged checks, especially printed on or woven into cloth (4-5) |
| MILL | Peppercorn- or rock salt-grinding device; or, a building for processing either grain into flour, logs into lumber, yarn into cloth or pulp into paper (4) |
| LORDS | "Bread keeping, loaf warding" male counterparts of "bread kneading" ladies, whose leaping examples in The Twelve Days of Christmas are symbolic of the Ten Commandments (5) |
| IKAT | Indonesian technique in which yarns are resist-dyed before being woven into cloth (4) |
| LAIRS | Burrows, dens, fortresses, setts and other retreats of wild animals; enclosures for beasts; or, secret boltholes for hiding or seclusion (5) |
| AMIANTHUS | Fine, fibrous asbestos that can be woven into cloth (9) |
| NEUMES | You see mine are symbolic of notes of Gregorian chant (6) |
| MAMMON | Mother, Frenchman and Scotsman are symbolic of greed (6) |
| MISTLETOE | A stormcock-propagated Malus canopy-hosted plant whose evergreen leaves and white berries are symbolic of fertility, hence traditionally forming lovers' Christmas kissing boughs with bay, holly, ivy, |
| ELDER | Thriving near badger setts or rabbit warrens, a small tree with berries, flowers and pith/stems used for cordial, presse, rob, sparkling wine or blowpipes and whistles (5) |
| TAPESTRY | A picture woven into cloth (8) |
| SPATS | Rarely seen nowadays, these upper shoe protectors are symbolic of 1930s bourgeoisie. (5) |
| PINECONE | Depicted in paisley patterns or as a finial, the strobilus of a species of conifer that can be used as a home-made weather station (8) |
