| BRONOWSKI | Polish-born scientist who wrote and presented the BBC TV series The Ascent of Man in 1973 (9) |
| ROBERTS | Biological anthropologist who wrote and presented The Incredible Human Journey and Origins of Us (7) |
| RANTZEN | Esther _, veteran British journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! (7) |
| CURIE | Polish-born scientist who discovered radium (5) |
| JACOBBRONOWSKI | Presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC series The Ascent of Man |
| JOLENE | Dolly Parton begged her not to take her man in 1973 (6) |
| SAGAN | Which US science writer co-wrote and presented the 13-part television series Cosmos: A Personal Voya |
| ECCLESTON | Christopher _, the Ninth Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who (9) |
| LOCATELLI | Giorgio ___, Italian chef who co-presented the BBC series Italy Unpacked with art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon (9) |
| ALEXANDER | Scottish born scientist credited with inventing the telephone (9,6,4) |
| LISARILEY | ____ played Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale and presented You've Been Framed |
| EINSTEIN | German-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect (8) |
| SIMON | Historian; presenter of the BBC TV series The American Future and The Story of the Jews (5,6) |
| SCHAMA | Historian; presenter of the BBC TV series The American Future and The Story of the Jews (6) |
| COX | Brian -; professor of particle physics who co-wrote The Quantum Universe and presented The Planets (3) |
| DELAMARE | Author of The Ascent of Man blocking venture |
| PLANTAGENET | Royal dynasty that ruled England from the ascent of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485 (11) |
| DONMACLEAN | Comedian who appeared on the BBC TV series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze and Jan Hunt in the 1970s |
| AUDEN | W. H. -; poet and dramatist who wrote three plays with Christopher Isherwood including The Ascent of F6 (5) |
| OFMAN | Presented by Jacob Bronowski, this extraordinary BBC TV series on the history of science in our civilisations was called The Ascent ... (2,3) |
