| EKMAN | Swedish oceanographer noted for his explanation of the role of the Coriolis effect on seawater curre |
| DOPPLER | Physicist remembered for his explanation of the apparent change in the frequency of a wavelength caused by the relative motion of the source (7) |
| EINSTEIN | German-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect (8) |
| YEAST | From "boil, froth, seethe", a word for foam on beer that came to mean barm, "gist", leaven or zyme used in baking and brewing; spume on seawater; or, any figurative leaven (5) |
| HOYLE | English astronomer, mountain climber and chess player noted for his explanation of nucleosynthesis a |
| GILBERT | Physician noted for his explanation of magnetic and electrical phenomena (7) |
| JETSTREAM | Influenced by the Coriolis effect, fast-flowing air current in the tropopause often affecting the meteorological conditions in the UK (3,6) |
| DRAIN | Household locale where the Coriolis effect is supposedly observed |
| FORMYPART | In favour of the role I take, as far as I'm concerned (3,2,4) |
| TOMFOOLERY | Craziness of the role my foot plays (10) |
| PARTWAY | The manner of the role but not totally (4,3) |
| DEFINITION | Any one of the concise explanations of the meanings of words in a dictionary; or, visual clarity or sharpness of outline (10) |
| ORDEROF | Start of the explanation of the arrangement |
| TOPMARKS | In explanation of the best score, points to the head (3,5) |
| ROBERTBALLARD | American oceanographer who discovered the wreck of RMS Titanic in 1985 off the coast of Newfoundland: 2 wds. |
| MOVEON | Advance, and the explanation of the puzzle theme |
| FUELINJECTION | Internal combustion process, and an explanation of the other long Across answers |
| ITFELLOFF | Booty trafficker, half slippery, geezer almost getting nicked - what's his explanation? (2,4,3,3,4,2 |
| MAURY | Known as the "pathfinder of the seas", oceanographer and meteorologist who proved that ships could use winds and currents to cross the oceans faster (5) |
| COUSTEAU | Jacques, French oceanographer born in 1910 noted for his underwater TV documentaries (8) |
