Scotland Puzzle - Scottish Bagpipes

Scottish Bagpipes

By Kay Glasgow

Among familiar Scottish symbols: the thistle, saltaire, Nessie, shortbread and bagpipes, the great Highland bagpipes certainly have proclaimed Scotland the loudest of them all for several centuries. Unless you have had your fill of piping from Highland games, enjoy a replay of BBC Radio Scotland's weekly piping program at http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/view/show.shtml?pipeline while you unscramble the anagrams. Or just avoid the puzzling pipes and quick march to the answer box!

1 every August pipe bands are featured in the Edinburgh Military __ on the castle's esplanade TOOT AT

2 people who could have brought the first bagpipe to Britain NO RAMS

3 MacCrimmons, MacArthurs, Mackays and MacDonalds are some famous __ __ (6,5) CLASPING PIN

4 the pipe with finger holes plays the melody on Highland bagpipes, Piob Mhór A TRENCH

5 borduns, the three pipes(one bass and two tenor) tuned to a fixed note SNORED

6 ancestral home to the Dukes of Atholl is site of piping competition, the Glenfiddich Championship (5,6) TRIBAL SCALE

7 translation of ceòl beag, Gaelic for bagpipe marches, strathspeys and reels (6,5) CELT STIMULI

8 translation of ceòl meadhonach, Gaelic for bagpipe slow marches, folksongs and lullabies (6,5) MIMI CUDDLES

9 Gaelic for the "big music", the classical music for bagpipes (pibroch, laments) (4,3) COLOR ME

10 traditional plumes of a piper's hat (7,8) CROFT HATER SHE IS

11 typical substitute for close-grained native woods in pipes, African __ BALD COW OK

12 Scottish area where small pipes and border pipes originated OLD LAWNS

13 "cold wind" describes the mellower bagpipes blown by __ SOB WELL

14 imitating bagpipe tunes without a set of pipes (5,5) OUCH SUMMIT

15 pipers insert these between main melody notes, particularly in pibroch (Gaelic: piobaireachd) (5,5) A SCOT GENRE

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1	every August pipe bands are featured in the Edinburgh Military __ on the castle's esplanade	TOOT AT
2	people who could have brought the first bagpipe to Britain	NO RAMS
3	MacCrimmons, MacArthurs, Mackays and MacDonalds are some famous __ __ (6,5)	CLASPING PIN
4	the pipe with finger holes plays the melody on Highland bagpipes, Piob Mhór	A TRENCH
5	borduns, the three pipes(one bass and two tenor) tuned to a fixed note	SNORED
6	ancestral home to the Dukes of Atholl is site of piping competition, the Glenfiddich Championship (5,6)	TRIBAL SCALE
7	translation of ceòl beag, Gaelic for bagpipe marches, strathspeys and reels (6,5)	CELT STIMULI
8	translation of ceòl meadhonach, Gaelic for bagpipe slow marches, folksongs and lullabies (6,5)	MIMI CUDDLES
9	Gaelic for the "big music", the classical music for bagpipes (pibroch, laments) (4,3)	COLOR ME
10	traditional plumes of a piper's hat (7,8)	CROFT HATER SHE IS
11	typical substitute for close-grained native woods in pipes, African __	BALD COW OK
12	Scottish area where small pipes and border pipes originated	OLD LAWNS
13	"cold wind" describes the mellower bagpipes blown by __	SOB WELL
14	imitating bagpipe tunes without a set of pipes (5,5)	OUCH SUMMIT
15	pipers insert these between main melody notes, particularly in pibroch (Gaelic: piobaireachd) (5,5)	A SCOT GENRE