July's Contest Solution

SCOTTISH TRIVIA

1 home to the silkies (seal people) O LEY Shetland
2 a Celtic name for Scotland A LAB Alba
3 prize whistle for drinking stamina in Burns poem came from this country DARK MEN Denmark
4 Bonnie Prince Charlie's first landing in Scotland RISK AYE Eriskay
5 chimney sweeps are lucky but not Hughie Clark of town in view of Ailsa Craig VAN RIG Girvan
6 child heir to the Scottish throne, Margaret, Maid of __ ANY ROW Norway
7 traditional seat of government and Stone of Destiny CONES Scone
8 "Flowers of the Forest" honors 1513 battle END FOLD Flodden
9 Argyll ancient Scots Irish kingdom RADIAL AD Dalriada
10 near Dingwall and home of the Brahan Seer A MYRRH BUG Maryburgh
11 Scotland's name to Latin scholars OCEAN LAID Caledonia
12 stones in the Heart of ___ mark site of Old Tolbooth, a prison in Edinburgh HID NO MALT Milothian
13 Sea bulls get the credit for fine milk in the area (6,4) STRESS WORE Wester Ross

Unscramble the anagrams of Scottish Bagpipes

14 every August pipe bands are featured in the Edinburgh Military __ on the castle's esplanade TOOT AT Tattoo
15 people who could have brought the first bagpipe to Britain NO RAMS Romans
16 MacCrimmons, MacArthurs, Mackays and MacDonalds are some famous __ __ (6,5) CLASPING PIN Piping Clans
17 the pipe with finger holes plays the melody on Highland bagpipes, Piob Mhór A TRENCH Chanter
18 borduns, the three pipes(one bass and two tenor) tuned to a fixed note SNORED Drones
19 ancestral home to the Dukes of Atholl is site of piping competition, the Glenfiddich Championship (5,6) TRIBAL SCALE Blair Castle
20 translation of ceòl beag, Gaelic for bagpipe marches, strathspeys and reels (6,5) CELT STIMULI Little Music
21 translation of ceòl meadhonach, Gaelic for bagpipe slow marches, folksongs and lullabies (6,5) MIMI CUDDLES Middle Music
22 Gaelic for the "big music", the classical music for bagpipes (pibroch, laments) (4,3) COLOR ME Ceol Mor
23 traditional plumes of a piper's hat (7,8) CROFT HATER SHE IS Ostrich Feathers
24 typical substitute for close-grained native woods in pipes, African __ BALD COW OK African Blackwood
25 Scottish area where small pipes and border pipes originated OLD LAWNS Lowlands
26 "cold wind" describes the mellower bagpipes blown by __ SOB WELL Bellows
27 imitating bagpipe tunes without a set of pipes (5,5) OUCH SUMMIT Mouth Music
28 pipers insert these between main melody notes, particularly in pibroch (Gaelic: piobaireachd) (5,5) A SCOT GENRE Grace Notes

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