Cryptic Geography: Scottish towns and cities

Can you solve the crossword-style clues and guess what place they each refer to?

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Clue	Town
Castle bill	Fort William
Oily plaice	Aberdeen
50 queens and a Caithness town	Lerwick
South hill impossible to reach by road - in the north	Stornoway
Assassinate, spoil and strike	Kilmarnock
Mollusc town	Musselburgh
In a way, Robert would be at home here	Ayr
Famous denier gets ahead by fishing	Peterhead

Clue	Town
Thor got us entangled	Thurso
I add a learner to the thread	Stirling
Pushed that Caithness town again	Prestwick
Embankment and nothing in right-wing Womble	Tobermory
Spice Girl got up in the Borders	Melrose
Burning on a candle	Wick
Place to be crowned down under	Perth

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