Scotland Puzzle

Scottish Midges

By Kay Glasgow

Any warm, humid, windless and overcast day of summer in the Highlands and Islands means the tiny flies, Scottish biting midges have their favourite conditions to swarm and hunt down the unprepared. Go right to the answer box if unscrambling the anagrams proves too pesky! I always start with the answers!

1 most infamous type of Scottish biters, Culicoides impunctatus (8,6) HAD HIND LEG MIGS
2 only these are the actual biters (6,6) FEED MAIM LEGS
3 dark clothing likely intensified her 1872 midge attack (5,8) NOTICE A QUIVER
4 #3's spoiled picnic in __was noted in her diary LAD RUSH NET
5 reduce chances of attack at night: avoid __ __ (6,6) RIGHT BLIGHT
6 times of day midges are hungriest: __ and __ (7,6) TURN NESS ISSUE
7 certain season makes a midgy summer (3,6) PEST WRING
8 prime area for midge breeding, like Rannoch Moor (8,3) SMASH PUB GONG
9 proverb: the midge is as __ as a __ almost (3,8) MINI GUN BOAT
10 midges more fierce as one walks north on the __ __ __ (4,8,3) A WETLAND WHY SIGH
11 Mercat Press perennial bestseller by George Hendry (6,2,8) MIST ON CADDIS GLEN
12 a camper might invest in one of these (5,3) DIN GET ME
13 before DEET, sprigs of __ __ deterred midges and pesky Highland fairies (3,6) GO TREMBLY
14 what midges?! islands in H&G magazine's top 10 holiday destinations (3,8) HERD BITES EH

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