| WALTERSCOTT | Writer close to Glasgow converts semidetached cottages (6,5) |
| WITCHES | Those hailing Macbeth close to Glasgow with dubious ethics (7) |
| WHALER | Starbucks job close to Glasgow and healthier (6) |
| OMEN | Sign of females lost close to Glasgow (4) |
| OVERRIDE | Annul sin burdening Roman writer close to Horace |
| POET | American writer close to Walt Whitman? (4) |
| TELEVISE | Screen set wrongly around Italian writer close to stage |
| VERNET | French painter and writer close to Monet (6) |
| SOMEONE | Important type shortly detaining writer close to home (7) |
| PLINYTHEELDER | Ancient writer, close to ninety, brought in pedestal and reeled about (5,3,5) |
| CANOPY | Is unable to go to Glasgow for shelter (6) |
| TWINTOWN | Shade closer to Glasgow inside, to have partner abroad (4,4) |
| TAD | Edward returns to smaller than semidetached (3) |
| MONKLANDCANAL | Waterway constructed from 1770, designed to bring in coal to Glasgow from the east (8,5) |
| VICTORIA | Who pulled out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, enabling them to come to Glasgow? (8) |
| WALLOWS | Closer to Glasgow enables delights (7) |
| NIGHTMAIL | Documentary film about Lon don-to-Glasgow postal train (5,4) |
| WAG | Swing closer to Glasgow and rang occasionally (3) |
| TWIGNEST | Rustic setting brought round closer to Glasgow tree house (4,4) |
| TRAMWAY | Push closer to Glasgow, entering river and city theatre (7) |
