| CLAN | Group of families in the Scottish Highlands |
| HOUSES | A number of families in The D'il and The Senate (6) |
| GENS | Group of families, in ancient Rome |
| CLANDESTINE | Private group of families in Paris is to eat a meal outside |
| TRIBES | Groups of families in traditional societies (6) |
| ARCHER | Name of one of the farming families in the radio soap set in fictional village of Ambridge (6) |
| NORTON | Author who wrote of the fictional Clock, Harpsichord, Overmantel, Rainbarrel and Rain Pipe families in The Borrowers (6) |
| FOREVERENGLAND | 1986 BBC TV series (later a book) in which Beryl Bainbridge looked at the lives of families in a divided nation |
| ROMANOVS | Families in "The Last Czars" |
| SCOTSPINE | Growing in abundance in the Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands, one of the three conifers n |
| LOCHNESS | Body of water in the Scottish Highlands which is one of the largest lakes in the British Isles (4,4) |
| VIADUCT | Bridge in the form of a series of arches, such as that in Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands (7) |
| ROBINSON | Surname of one of the original three families in Neighbours, with the Ramsays and the Clarkes |
| LOCHMORAR | Situated four miles from Mallaig in the Scottish Highlands, the deepest body of freshwater in the British Isles (4,5) |
| BENLOMOND | The most southerly of the Munros in the Scottish Highlands |
| MEDIANINCOME | Measure of the wealth of groups of families |
| MORAG | Nickname of the monster said to live in Loch Morar in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| NESSIE | Nickname of a legendary beast said to inhabit the deep waters of a lake in the Scottish Highlands (6) |
| HEATHER | Used by the Picts for ale and thriving in the Scottish Highlands, a flower ranging in colour from amethyst to shell pink, regarded lucky in its white form (7) |
| GLEN | Monarch of the ___; television drama set in the Scottish Highlands (4) |
