| CULLEN | Former fishing village in the north-east (pop about 1,300), a former royal burgh (6) |
| CRAIL | Former fishing village in Fife (pop about 1,600), a former royal burgh (5) |
| ROSEHEARTY | Old fishing village in the north-east, created a burgh of barony in the 1680s (10) |
| TAR | Baghdad was the first city to pave its streets with this, about 1,300 years ago |
| AVOCH | A fishing village in the Highlands (pop about 1,000, north of Inverness (5) |
| ALFORD | Small town in the north-east (pop about 2,000), the site of a Royalist victory in 1645 (6) |
| ABOYNE | Village in the north east (pop 2,200), the site of the Pictish Formaston Stone (6) |
| FORFAR | County town in eastern Scotland (pop about 9,000), a former royal burgh (6) |
| DUNBAR | East coast town (pop about 9,000), a former royal burgh (6) |
| IRVINE | Town on Scotland's Firth of Clyde, a former royal burgh and 12th Century military capital (6) |
| STONEHAVEN | Town in the north-east (pop about 12,000), a former burgh of barony and former county town (10) |
| EXMOOR | With a flag bearing a depiction of a stag's head and a star, a former royal hunting ground, site aro |
| PETERHEAD | Town in the north east (pop about 19,000), the biggest fish port in the UK (9) |
| EPPING | --- Forest, area of ancient woodland in Southern England, a former royal hunting ground (6) |
| TUDORS | In odd terms I hear you do go with members of a former royal house (6) |
| BANCHORY | Town in the north-east (pop about 7,500), near where the River Feugh meets the Dee (8) |
| ELGIN | Large town in the north-east (pop about 25,000), a former cathedral city (5) |
| EXPORT | Former fishing town animal doctor has nothing banned from sale abroad (6,4) |
| ANNAN | Town in the south-east (pop about 9,000), a former royal burgh (5) |
| BALLATER | Small town in the north-east (pop about 1,500), on the River Dee (8) |
