| STEVE | Forename of Scotland's national football team manager (5) |
| VOGTS | German who was manager of Scotland's national football team 2002-2004 (5) |
| STRACHAN | Manager of Scotland's national football team 2013- (8) |
| TARTANARMY | Supporters of Scotland's national football team (6,4) |
| REVIE | Don ?, England national football team manager from 1974-77 (5) |
| LIPPI | Marcello ..... , 2004-06 and 2008-10 Italy national football team manager (5) |
| FARIA | Jose ..... , 1983-88 Morocco national football team manager (5) |
| BARIC | 1999-2001 Austria, 2002-04 Croatia and 2006-07 Albania national football team manager (5) |
| GOULD | Wales football team manager 1995-99 (5) |
| BOBBY | Wales football team manager 1995-99 (5) |
| BURNS | Celebrated annually with a supper on his birthday of January 25, Scotland's national bard whose poems include A Red, Red Rose and Ae Fond Kiss (5) |
| LEEKS | Vegetables resembling large spring onions, used to make vichyssoise and Scotland's national soup (5) |
| DIDIER | Forename of the French national football team manager (6) |
| BURNSNIGHT | Celebration of the life of Scotland's national poet, held on 25 January (5,5) |
| GLENNHODDLE | Terry Venables's successor as England national football team manager (5,6) |
| GREGOR | ...... Townsend, head coach of Scotland's national rugby union team (6) |
| WATSON | Doug _, the head coach of Scotland's national cricket team (6) |
| TOSHACK | John ___, Wales national football team manager from 2004-10 (7) |
| VENABLES | Terry ___, England national football team manager from 1994-96 (8) |
| LUISENRIQUE | Spain's national football team manager reappointed in November 2019 (4,7) |
