| AVIEMORE | Skiing resort in the Cairngorms (8) |
| GLENMORE | Forest park near Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms (8) |
| KLOSTERS | Alpine skiing resort in E Switzerland comprising the villages of Platz, Dorfli and Brucke (8) |
| SHEPHERD | Hillwalker and nature writer "Nan" whose manuscript The Living Mountain about her journeys into the Cairngorms sat in a drawer for some 30 years before being published (8) |
| GRAMPIAN | The ___ Mountains form a large area of Scotland, including the Cairngorms (8) |
| DEE | River in Scotland, rising in the Cairngorms and flowing east to the North Sea (3) |
| SCRAE | Charlie in spikes returning from gravelly slope in the Cairngorms |
| BRAEMARCASTLE | Landmark in the Cairngorms National Park which is the ancestral home of clan Farquharson (7,6) |
| AVALANCHE | A clan have dreadful downfall in the Cairngorms, perhaps (9) |
| MAINTAINS | Claims artificial intelligence overthrows university in the Cairngorms? (9) |
| BROAD | Take a minor highway to a memorial of stones... and end up in the Cairngorms (5, 5) |
| CAIRN | Take a minor highway to a memorial of stones... and end up in the Cairngorms (5, 5) |
| BRAEMAR | Village in the Cairngorms National Park near Balmoral that hosts an annual Highland Games event (7) |
| SKLENT | On a slope in the Cairngorms, appropriate way to travel, one going fast! |
| DON | River that rises in the Cairngorm Mountains before flowing east to the North Sea (3) |
| WILDCATS | Which Scottish animals were born in Cairngorms National Park in June last year?(8) |
| ASPEN | Skiing resort in Colorado, USA (5) |
| LOCHTILT | Mill into fantastic Scotch at Afghani regional airport terminals providing Cairngorms water (4,4) |
| GEM | Girl climbing one of the Cairngorms? |
| ALTA | Skiing resort near Salt Lake City |
