| PENTLANDFIRTH | Strait separating the Orkneys and the Scottish mainland |
| NORTHERNISLES | The Orkneys and Shetland (8,5) |
| SOLENT | The --- is the strait separating the Isle of Wight from the Hampshire mainland of England (6) |
| THESOLENT | Strait separating the Isle of Wight from the English mainland (3,6) |
| HEBRIDES | Archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, The _ (8) |
| JURA | Island in the Inner Hebrides separated from the Scottish mainland by the Sound of ___ (4) |
| WICK | Town in the far north of the Scottish mainland, home to the world's shortest street (4) |
| DUNNETHEAD | The northernmost point of the Scottish mainland (6,4) |
| CAPEWRATH | Promontory at the N.W. extremity of the Scottish mainland (4,5) |
| HARRIS | One of three in a boat somewhere off the Scottish mainland (6) |
| THURSO | Most northerly town on the Scottish mainland (6) |
| SCAPAFLOW | Strait and former naval base in the Orkneys (5,4) |
| ISLE | What completes the name of Fair ___, the dot of land north-east of the Orkneys? (4) |
| MAINLAND | Mum away from the coast on largest of the Orkneys (8) |
| MILE | Royal -; thoroughfare which is the site of Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament Building (4) |
| OTTERBURN | Village in Northumbedand near the scene of a moonlight battle fought in 1388 by the English under Sir Henry Percy and the Scottish under James, 2nd Earl of Douglas (9) |
| OLDMANOFHOY | The isolated rock pillar, 450ft high, in the Orkneys, first climbed in 1966 |
| YORKERS | Deliveries to the Orkneys -- no name but right otherwise (7) |
| VOTE | Choice of model to enter bay in the Orkneys (4) |
| HONESTY | Plant's home in one of the Orkneys |
