| PEEBLES | Town in the Scottish Borders. that is the birthplace of singer-songwriter Eric Bogle |
| HILLS | Area in the Anglo-Scottish borders that proved problematic for early railway planners (7,5) |
| CHEVIOT | Area in the Anglo-Scottish borders that proved problematic for early railway planners (7,5) |
| OHIO | Birthplace of singer-songwriter John Legend |
| NOMANSLAND | Song by Eric Bogle also known as "The Green Fields Of France" and "Willie McBride" (2-4-4) |
| LOCKERBIE | Key entrance to Borders that is southern town (9) |
| ALLBYMYSELF | 1975 song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen (3,2,6) |
| BYMYSELF | All _ _, 1975 song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen (2,6) |
| WADI | Sudanese town on the Egyptian border that is the railway terminus of the line from Khartoum, ... Hal |
| GREATYARMOUTH | Resort town in Norfolk that is the birthplace of singer Myleene Klass (5,8) |
| NEWARK | U.S. city that is the birthplace of singer Frankie Valli (6) |
| NEATH | Welsh market town which was the birthplace of singer Bonnie Tyler (5) |
| KELSO | Market town in the Scottish Borders, at the confluence of the rivers Tweed and Teviot (5) |
| MELROSE | Town in the Scottish Borders with a Cistercian abbey that was repaired by Sir Walter Scott in 1822 |
| HAWICK | Town in the Scottish Borders whose rugby team plays at Mansfield Park (6) |
| JEDBURGH | Town in the Scottish borders, home to Queen Mary's House (8) |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels who lived at Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders and married on Christmas Eve in 1797 (5) |
| AFTON | Tributary of the River Nith in the Scottish Borders, immortalised by Robert Burns |
| LAUDERDALE | Long valley of the Leader Water in the Scottish Borders (10) |
| INVERNESS | What is the largest town in the Scottish Highlands? (9) |
