| ALLOWAY | Village in South Ayrshire, Scotland; birthplace of poet Robert Burns |
| BURNSIAN | Reminiscent of poet Robert |
| AILSACRAIG | Rocky island in south Ayrshire, Scotland, housing a colony of gannets (5,5) |
| TROON | Coastal town in South Ayrshire, Scotland; location of a famous golf course (5) |
| BLANTYRE | Village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; birthplace of explorer David Livingstone (8) |
| LINLITHGOW | Royal burgh in West Lothian, Scotland; birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots (10) |
| GIRVAN | Harbour town and river in South Ayrshire (anag. of 'rain - vg!) (6) |
| MYTHOLMROYD | Village in West Yorkshire; birthplace of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (11) |
| PRESTWICK | Town in South Ayrshire, famed for aviation and golf (9) |
| STINCHAR | River in South Ayrshire (8) |
| NISHAPUR | City in northeast Iran; birthplace of poet Omar Khayyam |
| EXCISEMAN | Poet Robert Burns became this kind of official as a better use of his education than farming |
| AFTON | Sweet ____, lyrical poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns written in 1791 (5) |
| IMMORTAL | The ____ Memory, toast to poet Robert Burns on Burns' Night (8) |
| LIGHTNING | Weather phenomenon most frequently seen in Kifuka, a village in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (9) |
| ABUSIMBEL | A former village in South Egypt, site of two temples of Rameses II (3,6) |
| GRETNAGREEN | A village in South Scotland, on the border with England, location of a famous smithy where eloping couples were married (6,5) |
| ORGREAVE | Village in South Yorkshire whose colliery was the site of a major confrontation between miners and police officers in 1984 |
| RANGEWORTHY | Village in South Gloucestershire north of Yate (11) |
| HARLAXTON | Village in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire (9) |
