Scotland Puzzle - Scottish Cheeses

Scottish Cheeses

By Kay Glasgow

Holy cow! Scotland is cheese: Bonchester, Brodick, Cairnsmore, Caithness, Dunsyre, Inverloch, Loch Arthur, Lochaber, Pentland, Strathdon, Stichill, Strathkinness and Teviotdale. All on the map of Scotland, all cheese. Pick your favourite oatcakes to go with the anagrams, a cheese board of more Scottish truckles.

1 1680's originator Barbara Gilmour put this Ayrshire town on the cheese map OLD PUN

2 Caboc (Scots: kebbuck), modern version of ancestral MacDonald cheese of the __ BEER DISH

3 Gruth Dhu, Gaelic for "black crowdie" covered in peppercorns and __ __ (7,4) APT ADHESION

4 award winning Northern Isles cheese, __ __ mature cheddar (6,5) ERRANT KEY OX

5 Alasdair Gray first novel cover color? (6,4) LUNAR BLEAK

6 Gigha cheeses come in these waxed fruit shapes (6,5,4) APPEAR GALE PRONE

7 whisky washed cheese named for founder of St Salvator's College, St Andrew's (6,7) KIND BONY SHEEP

8 now more likely a pub meal of cheese, bread and pickled veggies: __ lunch AMONG PLUSH

9 Galic, log formed cheese flavoured with wild __ __ , rolled in chopped hazelnuts (6,6) SCARE VILLAGE

10 dough with shredded cheese and herbs bakes into, not sweet but __ __ (7,6) SO CORNY SAVE US

11 ladies only cheese served with groaning malt to drink at birth celebration (6,7) CYBER KNICK BUG

12 whisky locale, __ of __ produced cheese with presumed aphrodisiac qualities (4,5) SILLY IS SEA

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1	1680's originator Barbara Gilmour put this Ayrshire town on the cheese map	OLD PUN
2	Caboc (Scots: kebbuck), modern version of ancestral MacDonald cheese of the __	BEER DISH
3	Gruth Dhu, Gaelic for "black crowdie" covered in peppercorns and __ __ (7,4)	APT ADHESION
4	award winning Northern Isles cheese, __ __ mature cheddar (6,5)	ERRANT KEY OX
5	Alasdair Gray first novel cover color? (6,4)	LUNAR BLEAK
6	Gigha cheeses come in these waxed fruit shapes (6,5,4)	APPEAR GALE PRONE
7	whisky washed cheese named for founder of St Salvator's College, St Andrew's (6,7)	KIND BONY SHEEP
8	now more likely a pub meal of cheese, bread and pickled veggies: __ lunch	AMONG PLUSH
9	Galic, log formed cheese flavoured with wild __ __ , rolled in chopped hazelnuts (6,6)	SCARE VILLAGE
10	dough with shredded cheese and herbs bakes into, not sweet but __ __ (7,6)	SO CORNY SAVE US
11	ladies only cheese served with groaning malt to drink at birth celebration (6,7)	CYBER KNICK BUG
12	whisky locale, __ of __ produced cheese with presumed aphrodisiac qualities (4,5)	SILLY IS SEA