| BOONE | "Discovery ... of Kentucke" subject (1784) |
| CARTER | Archaeologist whose excavations in the Valley of the Kings, financed by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, led to said Egyptologist's discovery of the intact tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutank |
| HARKNESS | Author of the All Souls trilogy comprising A Discovery of Witches and its sequels Shadow of Night and The Book of Life (8) |
| ATOM | Basic unit of matter consisting of Rutherford's "gold foil" discovery of a tiny-massive nucleus within a cloud of electrons likened by said scientist to planets orbiting the sun (4) |
| LYMEREGIS | Nicknamed the "Pearl of Dorset", a coastal town near the site of fossilist Mary Anning's discovery of the first specimen of ichthyosaurus (4,5) |
| BRADLEY | Scientist known for his discovery of the aberration of light and for observing the oscillation of Earth's axis (nutation), who succeeded Edmond Halley as Astronomer Royal in 1742 (7) |
| MOONS | Scientists announced the discovery of 20 of these orbiting Saturn on Oct. 8 and asked the public to suggest names; four of the already-known 82 begin this puzzle's theme entries |
| SCHEELE | Swedish chemist; one of the three claimants of the discovery of oxygen with Englishman Joseph Priestley and Frenchman Antoine Lavoisier (7) |
| FIND | Discovery of a bit of fish on end of rod (4) |
| CORI | First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (surname only) |
| DNA | National ___ Day (April 25, commemorating the 1953 publication of the discovery of its double-helix structure; you can discover six strands of it in the theme entries) |
| DISTRAINT | Discovery of dirt stain causes seizure of goods (9) |
| TERESA | Star of A Discovery Of Witches, _ Palmer (6) |
| MATTHEW | Romantic lead of A Discovery of Witches, - Goode (7) |
| NEHRU | Author of "The Discovery of India" |
| GOODE | Matthew of "A Discovery of Witches" |
| DOPPLER | Austrian physicist, d. 1853 famous for his discovery of the effect of movement on perceived waveleng |
| GALVANI | Italian physician and physicist whose discovery of the twitching of frogs' legs in an electric field |
| ESAKI | Japanese quantum physicist whose discovery of electron tunnelling led to his design of the tunnel diode (5) |
| SODDY | Chemist who developed the theory of isotopes and assisted William Ramsay in the discovery of helium (5) |
