| ABERDEEN | Which Scottish city is also known as 'the Granite City'? (8) |
| ELBERTON | Georgia city known as "The Granite Capital of the World" |
| SCOTTISH | Those from the granite city presumably producing alternative to schist (8) |
| ABERDONIAN | Scot from the Granite city? |
| STIRLING | Near which Scottish town did William Wallace rout the English in 1297? (8) |
| DRAMBUIE | Which Scottish whisky liqueur is sweetened with honey? (8) |
| YOSEMITE | National park in California that includes the granite rock formation El Capitan (8) |
| WILDCATS | Which Scottish animals were born in Cairngorms National Park in June last year?(8) |
| AERATING | Ventilating the granite with a starter (8) |
| JMBARRIE | Which Scottish novelist wrote Peter Pan? (1,1,6) |
| STGEORGE | "The Granite Town" of New Brunswick |
| KNOYDART | Which Scottish town of 120 inhabitants was in the news as it is not connected to the National Grid, so is not effected by precent energy price rises? (8) |
| PATNA | Which NE Indian city is also a variety of rice? (5) |
| UCSB | Golden State school whose city is also its county |
| TANGIER | A different Granite City? |
| DUNBAR | Which Scottish poet at the court of James IV wrote the political allegory The Thistle and the Rose ( |
| LOCHARD | Which Scottish lake, near Ben Nevis, gave its name to a clipper that wrecked near the Twelve Apostles, which in turn gave its name to a gorge near the site of the wreck? (4,3) |
| MACLEOD | Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye is the ancestral home of which Scottish clan? (7) |
| SIAL | The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust. |
| SCONE | Derived either from the Dutch meaning "beautiful bread" or the name of the stone upon which Scottish kings were crowned, a cake that became part of a cream tea (5) |
