| BEAUFORT | Who (Sir Francis ___) devised a scale of wind speed? (8) |
| PITMAN | Who (Sir Isaac ___) devised a system of shorthand? (6) |
| DEWAR | Which Scotsman (Sir James ___) devised the vacuum flask? (5) |
| ELO | Physicist Arpad ____ devised the rating system used in chess |
| STORM | A tempest accompanied by a gale of force 10, according to the grading of wind speeds devised by Sir Francis Beaufort during his time as a naval hydrographer (5) |
| BEAUFORTSCALE | A gauge of wind speed named after an Irish rear admiral in the Royal Navy (8,5) |
| ANEMOMETRY | The measuring of wind speed and direction |
| SCOVILLE | Pharmacist who devised a scale based on the measurement of the pungency or spiciness of chillies (8) |
| LIGHTAIR | Wind registering number 1 on the Beaufort scale of wind force (5,3) |
| GALTON | Sir Francis ___ (1822-1911), English scientist and cousin of Charles Darwin who founded the field of eugenics (6) |
| DEREK | One in a series of actors playing the villainous The Master in Doctor Who, Sir ... Jacobi |
| CALM | A reading of zero on the Beaufort scale, indicating a wind speed of less than 1 mph (4) |
| NEWTON | Who (Sir Isaac ___) is noted particularly for his law of gravitation? (6) |
| FUCHS | Who (Sir Vivian ___) led the Antarctic expedition that included Sir Edmund Hillary? (5) |
| GIELGUD | Who (Sir John ___) was awarded a BAFTA for his part in television's Brideshead Revisited? (7) |
| APPLEBY | Who (Sir Humphrey ___) did Nigel Hawthorne play in TV's Yes, Minister? (7) |
| NOBEL | Who (Sir Alfred ___) invented dynamite? (5) |
| ISSIGONIS | Who (Sir Alec ___) designed the Morris Minor and Mini? (9) |
| PALGRAVE | Sir Francis ___, historian born in 1788 whose son published the influential Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics in 1861 (8) |
| BACON | Sir Francis ___, 1561-1626, philosopher and scientist who was Attorney General and Lord Chancellor for James I (5) |
