| GLENBRITTLE | Area of Skye west of Black Cuillin (4,7) |
| BLAVEN | Anglicised name of the rocky isolated peak of the Black Cuillin of Skye (6) |
| RUM | Island south of Skye which also has Cuillin hills |
| SKYE | With the capital Portree, the largest of the Inner Hebrides, site of the Cuillin range (4) |
| ACCRETE | Gradually build up - for beginners climbing Cuillin Ridge is bracing (7) |
| SLEAT | Southernmost peninsula of Skye, home of a branch of Clan MacDonald |
| WOOLF | Daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and sister of Vanessa Bell who wrote several novels including To the Lighthouse, set on the Isle of Skye (5) |
| EIGG | One of the Small Isles in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, to the south of the Isle of Skye |
| DUNVEGAN | Castle on the Isle of Skye, seat of the chief of the Clan MacLeod (8) |
| ELGOL | Village on shores of Loch Scavaig on Isle of Skye (5) |
| DRYNOCH | Village east of Loch Harport on the Isle of Skye (7) |
| SNIZORT | Loch and river in the north-west of Skye (7) |
| PORTREE | Capital of the Isle of Skye (7) |
| MACLEOD | Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye is the ancestral home of which Scottish clan? (7) |
| SOAY | Small island of the Inner Hebrides off the south coast of Skye (4) |
| MANOFSTORR | Father sort of ruined leading role of Skye high point (3,3,3,2,5) |
| THEOLD | Father sort of ruined leading role of Skye high point (3,3,3,2,5) |
| ISLANDER | I make false statements about resident of Skye, say (8) |
| TALISKER | The only distillery on the Isle of Skye |
| RAASAY | Hebridean island east of Skye (6) |
