Possible Clues:

• Like Walter?
• Sort of drunken for about a century up north
• Walter is hard - it's his language!
• That's one thing that Ascot isn't
• Like a deerhound
• Caledonian author and his characters
• From Falkirk
• Journey undertaken by Muir
• Noble calling of Nijinsky
• So stitch up to be like Angus or Jock