| BOATOFGARTEN | Highland village (pop about 500), on the River Spey (4,2,6) |
| LUSS | Small conservation village (pop about 500) on the banks of Loch Lomond (4) |
| BRORA | Highland village (pop about 1,200), once the site of the UK'S most northerly coal-mine (5) |
| POSED | 500 on the river (southeast) stood for a photograph ... (5) |
| COMRIE | Historic conservation village (pop about 2,0000, in Perth and Kinross (6) |
| GARTEN | Vessel frontage refurbished on the River Spey (4,2,6) |
| BOATOF | Vessel frontage refurbished on the River Spey (4,2,6) |
| CROMDALE | Fallen comrade left. captured on the River Spey (8) |
| NEWTONMORE | Force unit to get extra on the River Spey (10) |
| ROTHES | Garbage shreds every second on the River Spey (6) |
| CARRON | Arrow nearly piercing walls of caravan on the River Spey (6) |
| LAGGAN | Horse woman returning on the River Spey (6) |
| AVIEMORE | Rival in love, Italian styte, on the River Spey (8) |
| ABERLOUR | Labour moving first to third, including elected regional leaders, on the River Spey (8) |
| GARMOUTH | Limb covered in gout - hard on the River Spey (8) |
| ELASTICBANDS | They hold everything together in flexible bar for 500 on bender (7,5) |
| BETTYHILL | Small village on the north coast (pop about 500) (9) |
| NOOSED | Snared ___ with a ring in the nose and 500 on the tail! (6) |
| SYNODS | Noddy lost 500 on the vessel according to the church courts |
| DARKEST | 500 on the ark go east in France to where it is the murkiest (7) |
