Possible Clues:

• Scottish East coast city
• Want river to flow back to the east of Lincoln city
• Where to have a tangled beard, even for Ascot, perhaps
• A flower in a Swiss city, a granite one
• Metropolis in Scotland
• Scottish E. coast city
• Bare need to be in Scotland, oddly
• A dieter regularly visiting capital city up north
• Bare need in the Scottish city
• Staff at Highland Games initially ignored requirement, reflected Scottish city