| ERSE | Relating to the Highland Celts from overseas |
| ELECT | How to pick a Celt from an Easterner |
| GAEL | Celt from the Scottish Highlands (4) |
| DUNKELD | Scottish town on the North bank of the River Tay, described as the Gateway to the Highlands (7) |
| STIRLING | City on the River Forth, "Gateway to the Highlands" (8) |
| INGONISH | Cape breton Island: 'Gateway to the highlands' area on the Cabot Trail |
| GANG | Go to the Highlands for a party (4) |
| INVERNESS | A city on the northeast coast of Scotland; the administrative centre of the Highland council area (9) |
| CABER | Beam from the Highland Games |
| PITCH | Chip in for Tam to do the Highland fling! (5) |
| TOSSING | ____ the caber, athletic event in the Highland Games (7) |
| SHOTPUT | Originating from the Highland Games this track and field event uses a weighted ball |
| CROFTERS | Subsistence farmers, particularly victims of the Highland Clearances in the early 19th century (8) |
| BRAEMAR | Scottish village around nine miles from Balmoral Castle that hosts the Highland Games (7) |
| ARRAN | Large island off the west coast (167 sq miles; pop 5,000), on the Highland Boundary Fault (5) |
| RAEBURN | Scottish portraitist who painted the Highland clan chieftain Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell thought to be Walter Scott's inspiration for Fergus McIvor in Waverley (7) |
| BUTE | Island in the west of Scotland, on the Highland Boundary Fault (4) |
| SKYE | Team from the Highland & Islands Conference of Caledonia North Region Division Two (4) |
| MACAQUE | Japanese -, type of monkey which recently escaped from the Highland Wildlife Park (7) |
| ROB | Forty years before Liam Neeson, Richard Todd played the lead role in ... Roy, The Highland Rogue |
