| ANTONINEWALL | Defensive fortification built in southern Scotland by the Romans c. 140 AD, extending from the River Clyde to the Firth of Forth (8,4) |
| MAGINOT | - Line, series of defensive fortifications built in 1930s France to deter German invasion (7) |
| MACCABEUS | Founders of the Hasmonean dynasty of ancient Judea (c. 140-37 BC), celebrated in the Jewish festival of Hanukkah (9) |
| CARATACUS | British chieftain who led a resistance against the Romans c. 43-50; son of Cunobelinus, better known as Cymbeline (9) |
| CREMAILLERE | Trench or fortification built in an indented or saw-tooth pattern |
| NUMERAL | Roman C, D, or X |
| THEGREATWALLOFCHINA | Extensive defensive fortification voted as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World (3,5,4,2,5) |
| BLOCKHOUSE | Small, defensive fortification |
| RAMPART | Defensive fortification |
| REDOUBT | Defensive fortification |
| PALISADE | Defensive fortification |
| HARRIS | Lewis and - - -, island in the Outer Hebrides, separated from the North West Coast of Scotland by the Minch (6) |
| HADRIANSWALL | Name given to the fortification built by the Roman Empire in Britain from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Sol |
| ARDS | ? Peninsula, landform in Northern Ireland separated from mainland Scotland by the North Channel |
| ORKNEY | Archipelago separated from Caithness in Scotland by the Pentland Firth (6) |
| DUMFRIES | Town in southern Scotland on the River Nith (8) |
| LOCHLOMOND | Celebrated in a folk song and forming part of the region that contains the Great Trossachs Forest, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland by surface area (4,6) |
| STERLING | Money somewhere in Scotland by the sound of it? (8) |
| AWARD | Something given away in Scotland, by the way? (5) |
| ANTONINE | Wall built by Romans across southern Scotland, 160km north of Hadrian's Wall (8) |
