| BRAE | The ____s of bonnie Doon are one of its fresh and fair features in a Robert Burns song |
| LASS | Handsome Nell, in a Robert Burns song |
| ISLET | The ____s of Langerhans are cells in the pancreas which secrete insulin |
| ROUNDABOUT | IT S A FAIR FEATURE IN AN INDIRECT WAY |
| IDE | "Beware the ___s of March" (3) |
| NEW | It's fresh and kept in a fine wine (3) |
| NOVELTY | Book tetchy extremists, thinking it's fresh and original |
| ABERFELDY | Town on the River Tay in Scotland, mentioned in a Robert Burns poem and an Ed Sheeran song (9) |
| YELLOWHAMMER | Bird of the bunting family mentioned in a Robert Burns poem (12) |
| MOUSE | What is the "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie" in a Robert Burns poem? (5) |
| SMA | Kind of request in a Robert Burns poem |
| JEAN | "The lassie I love best" in a Robert Burns poem |
| REDROSE | Emblem of Lancashire that features in a poem by Robert Burns once famously recited by the Prince of |
| CLAD | "Now Spring has ___ the grove in green" (Robert Burns song) |
| NANNIE | Girl in a Robert Burns poem |
| SYNE | Word in a Robert Burns poem heard on December 31 |
| REDREDROSE | Flower that "my Luve is like," in a Robert Burns poem |
| INDIANELEPHANTS | Endangered mammals which are one of the three sub-species of Asia's largest land animal (6,9) |
| KERGUELEN | Over 2,000 miles southeast of Madagascar, the ____ Islands are one of Earth's remotest places |
| MINIATURE | With roses, this (or these) are one of the subjects of this week's Miscellany! (9) |
