| AVIEMORE | Winter sports resort of the Cairngorms National Park |
| GEM | Girl climbing one of the Cairngorms? |
| BRAEMARCASTLE | Landmark in the Cairngorms National Park which is the ancestral home of clan Farquharson (7,6) |
| BRAEMAR | Village in the Cairngorms National Park near Balmoral that hosts an annual Highland Games event (7) |
| WILDCATS | Which Scottish animals were born in Cairngorms National Park in June last year?(8) |
| GSTAAD | Winter sports resort in the Canton of Bern, described by Julie Andrews as the last paradise in a cra |
| KLOSTERS | Swiss winter sports resort close to the border with Austria (8) |
| GRAMPIAN | The ___ Mountains form a large area of Scotland, including the Cairngorms (8) |
| DEE | River that rises in the Cairngorms and flows eastwards through Braemar and the Balmoral Estate to the North Sea; or, an alchemist who was Elizabeth I's court astronomer (3) |
| MORITZ | Swiss winter sports resort, St ... |
| APRES | -ski; post-piste social activities at a winter sports resort (5) |
| APRESSKI | Nightlife at a winter sports resort (5-3) |
| DAVOS | Winter sports resort in eastern Switzerland (5) |
| PLACID | Lake ---, winter sports resort in New York State (6) |
| GLENMORE | Forest park near Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms (8) |
| NICE | Capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department of SE France; chief resort of the Cote d'Azur, or French Riviera (4) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| AVALANCHE | A clan have dreadful downfall in the Cairngorms, perhaps (9) |
