Scotland Puzzle - Scottish Tours

Scottish Tours

By Kay Glasgow

The atlas is still open with more of Scotland to discover! Find in consecutive letters the number of Scottish place names (municipalities, geographical features, etc.) indicated at the end of each sentence. Some letters in this puzzle are used more than once.

Aly, the cook let ham (shankend bone, essential for flavor), carrot, apple and rhubarb make for plain simple fare for the hungry lawn party. (9)
Al, Rick said that the cobbler with the peel of orange and Janie's new scones, the best Ron ever had eaten would make even ardent in nylon sewing tailors leap through a needle's eye for more. (10)
Apprentice Mark inchin' down an inch more as contractor Reed pointed over owner Jock's shoulder to note that the missing inch meant the new house's seat on the crooked stair was an inch barely noticed but an inch Keith and an inch Michael had measured correctly. (13)
Carl, uke in hand at the mike made the pub ill to the wrath of bartenders Conrad, Ernie and Denny at the Rock and Spindle Pub; none wanted to hear one decibel more. (8)
At the gala bank party, loan head Penny, gowned in a dress as light as a star ringed cloud strut her stuff about the palace just as if she's won a title. (9)
After a belt, one too many Raven strut her stuff waterside before stepping off the princes' pier. She told the sharper headed drymen (with belts on but scruffy) vied in her rescue, "The water looked like fog or ignition smoke". (11)
The Steeles know we emigrated Rome the day the shot tsar in Moscow died. (5)

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