| CELSIUS | Anders ---, 19th Century Swedish astronomer who invented and gave his name to a scale of temperature (7) |
| ANDERSCELSIUS | 19th-Century Swedish astronomer who invented and gave his name to a scale of temperature (6,7) |
| RICHTER | Seismologist who gave his name to a scale in his field |
| AMPERE | French physicist who invented and named the solenoid in 1823 (6) |
| GEORGEHAMILTON | Captain in the Niagara Light Dragoons during the War of 1812, Canadian merchant and politician who founded and gave his name to Ontario's steel city: 2 wds. |
| ERICSSON | Lars Magnus ___, 19th-century Swedish inventor and founder of a telephone company that later developed into a multinational corporation (8) |
| SPOONER | Oxford don who said 'You have hissed all my mystery lessons' when he meant 'missed all my history lessons', and gave his name to the phenomenon; William Archibald ... |
| IANBALDING | US-born British horse trainer who retired in 2002 and gave his Park House stables licence to his son Andrew |
| JENNYLIND | 19th- century Swedish operatic soprano known as 'the Swedish nightingale' (5,4) |
| LANGLEY | Astronomer who invented the bolometer and contributed towards the design of early aircraft (7) |
| DIESEL | Which Rudolf lent his name to an engine he invented, and the fuel it uses? (6) |
| LIND | Surname of 19th-century Swedish soprano Jenny (4) |
| LINNAEUS | Carolus ?, 18th-century Swedish botanist who originated the modern scientific classification of plants and animals |
| ANTS | "What is this? A center for ___?" (Zoolander's reaction to a scale model, in "Zoolander") |
| NOBEL | 19th-century Swedish chemist known for inventing dynamite, Alfred _ (5) |
| DAHL | Anders ___, 18th-century Swedish botanist after whom a popular herbaceous perennial plant is named |
| WRAITH | “The Water-____ ascended thrice / And gave his doleful warning” (Wordsworth) |
| GRADUATE | Qualify to arrange to a scale |
| GRADUATED | Arranged according to a scale and passed (9) |
| NISSENHUT | A military shelter of semicircular cross section, invented and built as housing for troops in the First World War (6,3) |
