Related Clues:

• Walter is hard - it's his language!
• Like Walter?
• Unexpected costs hit northern folk
• Costs hit this nationality badly
• People producing alternative to schist
• Caber tossers
• McGregor, Connery et al, by birth
• Habitually tight, pinching clubs from St Andrews?
• Author, his novel, and his nationality
• Author is hard to follow, like others of his ilk
• Silence surrounding model, back on bed, showing tongue
• Robbie Burns et al
• Edinburgh residents
• Race leaders from separate clubs on the scene
• Sean Connery's compatriots