| MASCOTS | Degrees about Caledonian Thistle and unicorn, perhaps (7) |
| EMBLEMS | Scotland's include thistle and unicorn (7) |
| MARIMBA | Musical instrument degrees - about the limit? (7) |
| IPO | Event for a unicorn, perhaps, in brief |
| SCOTLAND | With national symbols including thistle and unicorn, the birth country of Robert Burns and Arthur Conan Doyle, location of the Glenfinnan Viaduct (8) |
| DANNYDEVINE | Inverness Caledonian Thistle and 2009-2012 Preston North End defender (5,6) |
| MUNRO | 1998-2011 Inverness Caledonian Thistle and 2011-2013 Ross County defender (5) |
| GRANT | 1998-2011 Inverness Caledonian Thistle and 2011-2013 Ross County defender (5) |
| SCOTTISHTHIRDDIVISION | Football league which was created-in 1994-when Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County were admitted (8,5,8) |
| SHEARER | Duncan ....... , 1986-88 Huddersfield Town, 1988-92 Swindon, 1992-97 Aberdeen and 1997-2002 Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker; 2004-08 Buckie Thistle manager (7) |
| DOLEOUT | Spot lion and unicorn heading inside to make deal |
| GREETED | Welcomed new degree about time (7) |
| SIGNING | Writing official orders haphazardly designing Inverness Caledonian Thistle first strip - w 3dn (7,6) |
| OUTOFTOWN | Where lion and unicorn finished up encouraging car use? (3,2,4) |
| BRITON | Lion and unicorn wearer |
| LUPUS | Wolf or lion and unicorn initially with Manx cat! (5) |
| YEOMANWARDERS | With an insignia bearing a rose, thistle and shamrock, ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, popularly (but incorrectly) titled a beefeater (6,7) |
| DEBRETTS | Publisher of books on peerage and etiquette, each bearing a rose, thistle and shamrock colophon in gold (8) |
| PASSERINE | A perching oscine, aka songbird, taking flight from the Latin for "sparrow", from blue tit of milk bottle and robin of wheelbarrow to goldfinch of thistle and redpoll of yarrow (9) |
| TERRYBUTCHER | Former Rangers defender who managed Inverness Caledonian Thistle, 2009-13 (5,7) |
