| PRESIDENT | Lord----, title of Scotland's most senior judge (9) |
| HELMSDALE | One of Scotland's most productive salmon rivers (9) |
| LAGAN | Name of Scotland's most exotic botanic garden - move along! (5) |
| PROTECTOR | Lord ---, title borne by Oliver Cromwell as head of state 1653-58 (9) |
| PETERHEAD | Scotland's most easterly town; a large fishing port near Aberdeen (9) |
| CAPEWRATH | Mainland Scotland's most north-westerly point (4,5) |
| BENLOMOND | Scotland's most southerly Munro (3,6) |
| DARNLEY | Lord -; title of Henry Stuart, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots implicated in the murder of David Rizzio before being murdered himself at Kirk o' Field (7) |
| BYRON | Lord -; title of the poet whose works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, the father of Ada Lovelace, he died from malaria at the age of 36 (5) |
| RAYLEIGH | Lord -; title of the co-discoverer of argon, John William Strutt (8) |
| ROCKFALLS | Remotest part of Scotland's restricting strong results of coastal erosion? (9) |
| NUFFIELD | Lord -; title of William Richard Morris, the motor manufacturer and philanthropist who founded Morris Motors Limited (8) |
| SNOWDON | Lord -; title of Princess Margaret's society-photographer husband who designed an aviary at London Zoo and coxed the winning Cambridge crew in the 1950 Boat Race (7) |
| STORNOWAY | The capital of Scotland's Western Isles (9) |
| CANDLEMAS | First of Scotland's quarter days, on February 28 (9) |
| INVERNESS | City of Scotland's Highland region (9) |
| ORCADIANS | Inhabitants of Scotland's Orkney Islands (9) |
| TRIATHLON | Sport of Scotland's Beth Potter (9) |
| ISLEOFMAY | Site of Scotland's oldest bird observatory ... mayflies moved around start of October! (4,2,3) |
| STEVENSON | Writer still cherished among foremost of Scotland's top novelists |