| SCRABSTER | Small settlement on Thurso Bay, Caithness, NE Scotland, associated with the fishing industry |
| AIRDRIE | Town east of Glasgow, Scotland associated with the pharmaceutical industry (7) |
| NETWORKER | An industrious socialiser employed in the fishing industry? (9) |
| NETLOSSES | Would they lead to financial difficulties in the fishing industry? (3,6) |
| FAIRCATCH | So-so haul in the fishing industry? |
| EDINBURGH | ___ of the Seven Seas, the optimistically named main settlement on Tristan da Cunha (9) |
| ADAMSTOWN | The only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands |
| BALAKLAVA | Settlement on the Crimean Peninsula within the city of Sevastopol (9) |
| COLONISED | Established settlement on island to the east, in unfriendly surroundings (9) |
| RANCHERIA | (Mexico/sw U.S.) Small settlement of native peoples (9) |
| BROADFORD | Second-largest settlement on the Isle of Skye (9) |
| CAITHNESS | Registration county of NE Scotland whose settlements include Thurso and John O'Groats (9) |
| SKARABRAE | Neolithic settlement on Mainland in the Orkney Islands (5,4) |
| VILLAGERS | Natives in small settlement train slave girl (9) |
| LONDINIUM | Roman settlement on Thames (9) |
| DUNBLANE | Small cathedral city in Scotland associated with a massacre in March 1996 |
| SKYE | Island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie (4) |
| LANARK | New --- was a model town and manufacturing village in Scotland associated with Robert Owen (6) |
| ADROPINTHEOCEAN | Does this explain the small amount of technique in overseas fishing industry? (1,4,2,3,5) |
| GRETNA | ___ Green, village in Scotland associated with runaway marriages (6) |
