| LEVEN | Loch - - -, lake in East Central Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (5) |
| LOCH | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| NORFOLK | - - - Broads, network of rivers and lakes in East Anglia (7) |
| BROADS | Navigable lakes in East Anglia |
| NESS | Loch --, lake in Scotland in the Great Glen (4) |
| GLENROTHES | New town in east central Scotland; administrative centre of Fife (10) |
| TAYSIDE | A region in east central Scotland around Dundee (7) |
| IONIANSEA | Setting of the so-called "Seven Islands" of Greece |
| HMSIVANHOE | Royal Navy I-class destroyer that sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands on 1 September 1940 |
| IONA | Island on one side of Atlantic |
| LOCHLEVEN | Castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| FOTHERINGHAY | ___ Castle, fortress in Northamptonshire where Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587 (12) |
| ASHBYDELAZOUCH | Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in this Leicestershire castle in 1569 (5-2-2-5) |
| ENTOMBED | Mary Queen of Scots was ---- in Westminster Abbey in 1612 (8) |
| LOTHIAN | East ---, a council area of East Central Scotland on the Firth of Forth (7) |
| BILLIARDS | Table game at which Mary Queen of Scots excelled (9) |
| COUSIN | Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth I's (6) |
| AXED | Imposed a duty to be executed as Mary Queen of Scots was (4) |
| FIFE | A council area of east central Scotland, bordering the North Sea between the Firths of Tay and Forth (4) |
| AIRS | - above the ground; move in classical dressage after which Mary Stewart titled one of her novels (4) |
