Scotland Puzzle

Bridges of Scotland

By Kay Glasgow

With rivers, burns, firths, glens, isles, lochs and jagged coastlines, Scotland has been the civil engineer's challenge for centuries. The resulting bridges and viaducts have become an integral part of Scottish history and Scotland's much photographed scenery. Whether arch, beam, cable-stayed, cantilever, suspension, truss or combinations thereof in wood, stone, steel and concrete, a six letter word in the anagrams could be a "bridge" to the answer!

1 cantilevered wonder at Queensferry Narrows (5,4,6) BARR IDOL FREIGHT
2 one with the footpath to Fife, __ Road __ (5,6) RIGHT FOR BED
3 town with ornate 1733 General Wade's Bridge over the Tay BARLEY FED
4 controversial road bridge open since 1995 at Kyle of Lochalsh (4,6) BY GREED SKI
5 engineer John Rennie's 1813 granite bridge spans River Cree here (6,7) OAT WENT STREWN
6 Alloway bridge of 'Tam o' Shanter' fame (4,4,1,4) GOAD LOUD ROBIN
7 Dunkeld and Birnam linked by 7 arched 1809 bridge of civil engineer, _ _ (6,7) FATHOM OLDSTER
8 the Battle of _ _, 1297, defeat of Edward I by William Wallace (8,6) BE STIRRING GILD
9 canine statue at SW corner of Edinburgh's George IV Bridge (10,5) BARRY GIBBS FOYER
10 Scottish town with Devorguilla's, oldest surviving multiple stone arch bridge (1426) IS FED RUM
11 Glasgow Bridge a.k.a. Jamaica Street Bridge or __ Bridge I'M WOOL BARE
12 original (1887-9) in rhymes of William McGonagall, 'the world's worst poet' (3,6) TIDY BARGE
13 train chase in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets filmed at __ Viaduct LANG FEN INN

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