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Arts company founded by Alexander Gibson (8,5)

It was replaced by Alloa as a county town (11) Printing error (7) Clyde-built ocean liner sunk in WW1 (9

Moving from one place to another (7)

Leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War (9)

Juicy fruit with smooth skin (9)

Arthur Conan -----, Sherlock Holmes creator (5)

Footballer Darren Scotland captain (8)

John --------, Scots pioneer of documentary films (8)

Type of conflict indicated by Latin phrase bellum sacrum (4,3)

Leading Nazi who flew to Scotland (6,4)

James Hogg aka the Ettrick -------- (8) Edible bulb (5) Silver darlings (7) Scotch whisky liqueur (8) Person who controls or rides a camel (8)

Diageo is the world’s largest (9)

Former Alaska governor ----- Palin (5)

System of flexible organisation, not rigid bureaucracy (9)

Orange or red plant pigment (8)

Angular distance north or south of the equator (8)

The -------, novel by DH Lawrence (7)

----- poppy, botanical name Papaver somniferum (5)

One of thousands seen in a murmuration (8)

Member of the weasel family (4,6)

------- flop, high-jumping technique (7)

-------- MacDonald, BBC weather presenter (8)

Zimbabwe’s second largest city (8)

Category of taste besides sweet, sour, salty, bitter (5)

Resident of the City of Discovery (9)

Nickname Tam O’Shanter gives Nannie (5,4)

Capital of the country of Georgia (7)

Branch from this is a symbol of peace (5,4)

Whipped filling of chocolate and cream (7)

Patriotic song, words by Robert Burns (5,3,3)

Civil engineer born in 1757 in Dumfriesshire (6,7)

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The River Nith flows into (6,5) Thin savoury biscuit (7) Shield used by Highlanders in combat (5)

Sounds Of -------, Simon & Garfunkel album (7) Type of dark China tea (6) Setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet (8)

Device that displays script for TV presenter (7)

The westernmost of the Small Isles (5)

North-western part of Indian Ocean (7,3)

Name of three Scottish kings (7)

Mammal covered with bony plates (9)

Car-driving Enid Blyton character (5)

It’s harnessed at Torness and Hunterston (7,6) John Knox was one (9) British biplane used in WW1 (7,3)

Alice follows the ----- /-----into Wonderland (5,6)

------- Duncan, American dancer, died in 1927 (7)

Mark Knopfler’s former band (4,7)

What the first letter of HIE stands for (9)

Football club supported by The Proclaimers (9)

Powerful animal used to pull heavy loads (4,5)

Jazz musician of Ain’t Misbehavin’ fame (4,6)

Rolled stuffed tortilla with chilli sauce (9)

Light spear thrown by athletes (7)

Tragedy by Christopher Marlowe (6,7)

Scotland’s highest village (11)

Charles Rennie ----------, architect, designer, artist (10)

Island nation whose capital is Port Louis (9)

-------- da Vinci, Renaissance polymath (8) A Jewish language (7) UK’s nuclear weapons system (7)

------- (Everything’s Alright), Stevie Wonder hit (7)

Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthplace on Corsica (7)

White outer layer of the eyeball (6)

----- acids, the building blocks of proteins (5)

Compound of oxygen and another element (5)

Barbra Streisand film (5)

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