Possible Clues:

• Staff at Highland Games initially ignored requirement, reflected Scottish city
• A dieter regularly visiting capital city up north
• Port, rum, beer and last of wine
• Dancing bear, 16, climbing in Scottish city
• Scottish seaport known as the Granite City
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of --, prime minister who led Britain into the Crimean War
• Scottish city on the North Sea
• City of Lincoln? Right — need to change
• Dear, been to this strange Scottish city?
• Scottish port