| OBREE | Graeme -, cyclist; author of 2003 autobiography Flying Scotsman |
| MITCH | US author of 2003 novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven (5,5) |
| ALBOM | US author of 2003 novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven (5,5) |
| MADAM | "___ Secretary," Madeleine Albright's 2003 autobiography |
| NOMAD | A locomotive such as Flying Scotsman, or a service such as 'Flying Scotsman' (5) |
| TRAIN | Common name for a mode of transport such as the Flying Scotsman (5) |
| NIGEL | Engineer and designer of A1 Flying Scotsman and A4 Mallard (3, 5, 7) |
| DANCE | European nurses caught the Flying Scotsman? (5) |
| STEAM | Vapour used to power the Mallard, Stephenson's Rocket, the Orient Express or the Flying Scotsman (5) |
| ALI | Monica ?, author of 2003 novel Brick Lane |
| MITCHALBOM | US author of 2003 novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| CRUZ | Nilo -, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics (4) |
| SIR | Engineer and designer of A1 Flying Scotsman and A4 Mallard (3, 5, 7) |
| GRESLEY | Engineer and designer of A1 Flying Scotsman and A4 Mallard (3, 5, 7) |
| MILLER | Jonny Lee, actor who played cyclist Graeme Obree in The Flying Scotsman (6) |
| KINGSX | Crowned head has empty sex in line at end of the Flying Scotsman (5,1) |
| AVIEMORE | Which railway station saw the collision of the Flying Scotsman and the Royal Scotsman this year? (8) |
| JIMMYGUTHRIE | Late, great Flying Scotsman who was one of the best in the world during the 1930s. (5,7) |
| GRAEME | Be more eager to recycle Flying Scotsman (6,5) |
| GRAB | Seizure in back of Flying Scotsman (4) |
