| SKYEBOATSONG | Ask bygones to be abandoned for air of Bonnie Prince Charlie (4,4,4) |
| AULD | Bygone, to Burns |
| OLDPRETENDER | Aged actor, father of Bonnie Prince Charlie (3,9) |
| GOBYTHEBOARD | Plan to follow the directors' advice to be abandoned (2,2,3,5) |
| YOUNGPRETENDER | Byname of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Stuart claimant to the throne (5,9) |
| FRANKENSTEIN | Honest scientist I abandoned for a notorious one |
| FLORA | Name, shared with an anthology, book on blooms or botany, of a Jacobite heroine whose rescuing boatlift of Bonnie Prince Charlie after his defeat at Culloden is recounted in The Skye Boat Song (5) |
| TRAMPOLINIST | Bum string-player girl abandoned for gymnast |
| PRETENDER | Young -, nickname of Bonnie Prince Charlie (9) |
| MACDONALD | Flora ---, facilitator of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s escape after the Battle of Culloden |
| OVERPRICE | Ask too much for retrospective test to be abandoned anew (9) |
| DRAMBUIE | Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have given the recipe for which liqueur to those who gave him refuge in 1746? (8) |
| SKYE | Scottish island of song to which fled Bonnie Prince Charlie |
| EXTREME | Unreasonable for Mass in Exeter to be abandoned (7) |
| OCTANE | Component of fuel to be abandoned at once (6) |
| ROGET | Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones? |
| CULLODEN | Seventeen forty six defeat for Bonnie Prince Charlie |
| THEYOUNGPRETENDER | Another name for Bonnie Prince Charlie (3,5,9) |
| BENBECULA | Outer Hebridean island from which Bonnie Prince Charlie headed "over the sea to Skye" |
| STUART | Bonnie Prince Charlie belonged to this Scottish royal family |
