| AILSACRAIG | Rocky island in south Ayrshire, Scotland, housing a colony of gannets (5,5) |
| NORTHNORTHEAST | Direction taken briefly by group of gannets (5-9) |
| SUGGEST | Smell of gannet's egg, usually somewhat revolting (7) |
| TROON | Coastal town in South Ayrshire, Scotland; location of a famous golf course (5) |
| ALLOWAY | Village in South Ayrshire, Scotland; birthplace of poet Robert Burns |
| LEVEN | Loch ___, body of water in Perth and Kinross, Scotland housing a castle that was a place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (5) |
| LOCHLEVEN | Body of water in Scotland housing a castle that was the place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scot |
| CRAIG | Rocky island in Ayrshire, Scotland, which houses a gannetry (5) |
| AILSA | Rocky island in Ayrshire, Scotland, which houses a gannetry (5) |
| THURSO | Town in Highland, NE Scotland housing a ruined 19th-century castle (6) |
| MELROSE | Town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, housing a 12th-century abbey |
| ALCATRAZ | U.S. prison on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay that closed in 1963 (8) |
| OFCLYDE | Inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland housing the Isle of Arran (5,2,5) |
| FIRTH | Inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland housing the Isle of Arran (5,2,5) |
| BASS | ____ Rock, in the Firth of Forth, has the world's largest single-island colony of northern gannets |
| ROBBEN | -- Island in South Africa became a World Heritage Site in 1999 (6) |
| SKERRY | Rocky island in small county of Ireland (6) |
| GIRVAN | Harbour town and river in South Ayrshire (anag. of 'rain - vg!) (6) |
| BORNEO | Island in south-east Asia (287,000 sq miles; pop 22 million), the third largest island in the world (6) |
| SUMATRAN | Citizen of a large island in south-east Asia (182,812 sq miles; pop about 60 million) (8) |
