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Not kilts. Possibly "clear-as-mud" attempted hint -- other-side (from the famous ladies) subject, is indeed a common theme -- the various "that which depicted": found in Scotland, but not specifically / uniquely Scottish.
 
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@xotGD, re universities -- again, no.
Ashley Hill said:
Scottish inventors?
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@OhNoAPacer and you, the nearest so far re one side of the notes -- he, closer than you. I feel that this question isn't likely to go much further -- see "drawing stumps" say tomorrow afternoon (Sun.), unless things go otherwise between now and then.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Reverse of the £5 note are mackerel
Reverse of the £10 note are otters.

Not sure if I've got the right bank.
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Correct re reverse of notes -- you indeed have the right bank (RBS). This bids fair to get complicated, as to who wins !
 
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Further thoughts -- am reckoning on, after all, "prolonging the agony" for all of today (Sun.), hoping for perhaps further developments. @Xenophon PCDGS -- I suppose you can't tell us what creature is depicted on the reverse of the £20 note? If that could be so, I feel that we'd have what could be called a level playing field.
 
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I can only suggest that it may be Kate Cranston on the front of the £20 note. I am at a loss to say what is on the reverse of that note,

It would be best of either of the two thread contributors who were being considered before my late entry into the fray set the next conundrum.
 
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Time to put this one to bed, I think. With your offer, @Xenophon PCDGS , to "stand down", as above (you're right about Kate Cranston on the £20, by the way) -- I feel that largest quantity of "broad, general" getting-right has been achieved by @OhNoAPacer, as below.
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Famous Scottish Women and Mountains.
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Broadly, famous Scottish women, yes. As upthread, not mountains; but types of "non-human creatures" notable for being found in, or off, Scotland (including mackerel, and otters, as per @Xenophon PCDGS upthread). The women -- @D6130 identified Nan Shepherd, but "in isolation" as it were. @Ashley Hill, on outskirts of ballpark with "inventors" -- a couple of the ladies were, anyway, innovators -- but I see @OhNoAPacer, basically right re a full 50% including specifying the gender: as the participant qualified to set the next question.

("Full roll-call" re the Royal Bank of Scotland notes:
"Front": Scottish women of the last metaphorical "couple" of centuries, of prominence in their fields of activity -- £20: Kate Cranston, teashop entrepreneur/euse; £10: Mary Somerville, scientist and astronomer;
£5: Nan Shepherd, writer / poet / "outdoorsperson".
Reverse: "creatures" -- £20: red squirrels; £10: otters; £5: mackerel [two of them]. )
 
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Calthrop said:
("Full roll-call" re the Royal Bank of Scotland notes:
"Front": Scottish women of the last metaphorical "couple" of centuries, of prominence in their fields of activity -- £20: Kate Cranston, teashop entrepreneur/euse; £10: Mary Somerville, scientist and astronomer;
£5: Nan Shepherd, writer / poet / "outdoorsperson".
Reverse: "creatures" -- £20: red squirrels; £10: otters; £5: mackerel [two of them]. )
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Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms are mentioned in the poem Night Mail, along with Crawford’s, their Edinburgh equivalent:

Thousands are still asleep
Dreaming of terrifying monsters
Or of friendly tea beside the band at Cranston’s or Crawford’s…
 
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Gloster said:
Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms are mentioned in the poem Night Mail, along with Crawford’s, their Edinburgh equivalent:

Thousand’ss are still asleep
Dreaming of terrifying monsters
Or of friendly tea beside the band at Cranston’s or Crawford’s
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Indeed ! From context in the poem, I'd figured that Cranston's must (like its counterpart) be a relatively up-market place, somewhere in Scotland, where one could go for tea; but I'd never heard of Kate, its founder, until a recent visit to Scotland in which I encountered the relevant banknote and its "mates" -- and duly researched re Miss C. (hence, by extension, this question). Every day a school day, and all that...
 
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The premier league launched in the summer of 1992, ahead of the 1992-93 season. In the last season of the "old" first division, three teams were relegated. Two of them subsequently got back into the promised land of riches that is the premier league, but one - so far - has not. Which team?
 
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