| OUROWNFUTURE | O! If our chief tower of strength throughout is anagram for battle for Scotland's democracy (5,3,3,5,2,6,3,3,6) |
| TOCHOOSE | O! If our chief tower of strength throughout is anagram for battle for Scotland's democracy (5,3,3,5,2,6,3,3,6) |
| FIGHTFOR | O! If our chief tower of strength throughout is anagram for battle for Scotland's democracy (5,3,3,5,2,6,3,3,6) |
| THERIGHT | O! If our chief tower of strength throughout is anagram for battle for Scotland's democracy (5,3,3,5,2,6,3,3,6) |
| INVEREWE | National Trust for Scotland's Highlands botanical garden - were vine to be transformed (8) |
| BLACKWATCH | Alternative name for Scotland's Royal Highland Regiment, originating in 1715 (5,5) |
| ANNIE | A little Govan niece for Scotland's Miss Lennox (5) |
| PINE | "if our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we ___ away in them..." (ezek. 33:10) |
| THELONGRUN | 1979 Eagles hit on which Don Henley sings, "We can handle some resistance / If our love is a strong one" |
| PILLAR | Architectural column; stack of rock; or, a person considered a mainstay or tower of strength (6) |
| ART | 'Our chief means of breaking bread with the dead': Auden |
| TIPTOED | Recommendation for our chief went forward nervously |
| SCAMPI | Italian dish of prawns "camp is" anagram (6) |
| MYSTIQUES | Auras of heightened interest (MY QUEST IS anagram) (9) |
| PROBED | We examined searchingly to see if our little brother had taken dope (6) |
| EYES | "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our ___ Aren't Real" (Jaden Smith tweet from 2013) |
| NAME | 'The King's ___ is a tower of strength': 'Richard III' |
| ROCKEFELLER | US philanthropist is tower of strength taking English bloke in tow (11) |
| MIXEDMETAPHOR | This tower of strength will forge ahead, for instance |
| NITROUSOXIDE | Tower of strength in Sun editor I gathered ___ that should make you laugh! (7,5) |
