| DUNFERMLINE | Scottish town and former Royal Burgh in whose abbey Robert The Bruce was the last of seven Scottish kings to be buried |
| GREENOCK | One of seven Scottish towns to receive levelling-up funding (8) |
| DUMFRIES | One of seven Scottish towns to receive levelling-up funding (8) |
| MALMESBURY | Wiltshire town whose abbey is the burial place of the first king of the whole of England |
| KELLS | Town in County Meath after whose abbey an illuminated bible of the Gospels takes its name (5) |
| BORN | Bruce was this, "in the USA" |
| LEERY | What Bruce was of Alan Rickman when they first met in Die Hard. |
| ROBERT | ,7 Scottish stalwart brother - bet cure gets fixed! (6,3,5) |
| JEDBURGH | Town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders with an abbey that was founded in 1147 |
| ELGIN | Town and former Royal Burgh on the River Lossie that is the administrative centre of Moray (5) |
| FORFAR | County town, and former royal burgh in eastern Scotland (pop about 14,000) (6) |
| AYR | Large town and former Royal Burgh on the west coast of Scotland with a racecourse |
| BRECHIN | Town and former royal burgh in Angus (7) |
| MELROSE | ___ Abbey in the Scottish Borders, thought to be the burial location of the heart of Robert the Bruce (7) |
| CALAIS | Port that was the last of the territory won by the English in the Hundred Years' War to be regained by the French |
| BATHURST | Star of TV dramas The Pillars of the Earth and Downton Abbey, Robert -------- (8) |
| ARBROATH | Home of the Abbey famously known for a letter sent in response to the renewed excommunication of Robert the Bruce (8) |
| CROMARTY | Former royal burgh in the Highlands (pop about 750), the birthplace of Hugh Miller (8) |
| WIGTOWN | Former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway that is the gateway to the Machars |
| SCONE | - Palace; situated on the Tay, the crowning place of Scottish kings including Macbeth and Robert the Bruce (5) |
