| KILMARNOCK | Town in Ayrshire, birthplace of the author William McIlvanney (10) |
| OHENRY | Pen name of the writer William Sidney Porter (1,5) |
| STALBANS | English cathedral city, birthplace of the author Michael Morpurgo |
| KENYA | Equatorial country forming part of the Commonwealth, birthplace of the author of Weep Not, Child and |
| DALMELLINGTON | Small town in Ayrshire (pop about 1,500), once a coal-mining centre (13) |
| DALRY | Town in Ayrshire (pop about 4,000), once an important weaving centre (5) |
| TAGANROG | Founded in 1698 by Peter the Great, which Russian city is the birthplace of the writer Anton Chekhov? (8) |
| TRINIDAD | Birthplace of the writer V.S. Naipaul |
| ODENSE | Danish birthplace of the writer Hans Christian Andersen |
| STAIRHOUSE | Category-A listed building in Ayrshire that was the birthplace of John Dalrymple |
| BALLANTRAE | Fishing village in Ayrshire with a ruined castle (c 1450) (10) |
| ROBERTADAM | Scottish architect who designed Culzean Castle in Ayrshire (6,4) |
| GAMEOFWOOL | Tom Daley TV series filmed in Ayrshire barn (4,2,4) |
| CYBERSPACE | The term coined by science fiction writer William Gibson for the Internet's electronic environment |
| DOCHERTY | Work of William McIlvanney physician with the woman on the outskirts of Tobermory (8) |
| LAIDLAW | Stayed out of sight when taking nothing for a work of William McIlvanney (7) |
| THEBIGMAN | Me bathing upset work of William McIlvanney (3,3,3) |
| WEEKEND | 2006 novel by William McIlvanney (7) |
| LOYALTIES | So, lately I changed strange things written about by William McIlvanney (9) |
| HOUSE | Category-A listed building in Ayrshire that was the birthplace of John Dalrymple |
