ACROSS
1&3.Down. Song extract which is no longer relevant for
travellers to Portree? (4,3,3,2,4)- Skilled Scottish farm worker in the fish industry (4)
- Poor slave in Moray village (5)
- Missive to lamb’s mother on a Wester Ross estate (9)
- Inverie’s and Airor’s peninsula (8)
- Shetland settlement at the head of Vaila Sound (5)
- England cricket vice-captain, Joe ... (4)
- Celebrates wildly at village on Lewis (10)
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ballet (10)
- Most northerly inhabited Shetland isle (4)
- Aberdeenshire river with scenery, thankfully! (5)
- Small migratory plover, Eudoromias morinellus (8)
- Annandale market town, noted for its August lamb fair (9)
- HQ of the former Sutherland Transport and Trading
Company (5)- Elephant’s long ivory tooth (4)
- Orkney location of Sheila Fleet’s jewellery workshop (10)
DOWN
- Ferry port overlooked by MacCaig’s Folly (4)
- Clydesdale village where ton of veal is served (9)
- See 1 Across
- Lie back on loch west of Fort William (3)
- Neatest gate fixed by house-selling representative (6,5)
- My perfect way to distribute cards! (5)
- Edit theses about slimming plans (4,6)
- Islands’ capital and Norman Lamont’s baronetcy (7)
- Conjuror’s magic word (11)
- Nan’s annexe (6,4)
- Morecambe’s comedy partner (5,4)
- Duke of Norfolk’s castle (7)
- RA left in disarray for Shetland isle (6)
- Dull journalists making cuts (5)
- Urges at breakfast? (4)
- Rivers in Dalkeith, Angus and Dumfries and Galloway (3)
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORER 49
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When you have solved the crossword, transfer the letters from some of the numbered
squares into the small grid and so reveal the Strathaird village where the Young Pretender
found sanctuary in early July 1746.
CROSSWORD 25
by Tom JohnsonSolution to Crossword 24
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07510 127014 or by mailing it to SIE Elm Lodge IP22 1EA
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membership of The Islands Book Trust.
Small grid answer to Crossword 24 was Scalloway
Winner of Crossword 24:David Purchase