| COVERUPS | Attempts to stop people discovering the truth about a serious mistake or crime (5,3) |
| COVERUP | An attempt to prevent people discovering the truth about a serious mistake or crime (5,2) |
| BLUNDERED | Made a serious mistake or made one's way blindly (9) |
| ONTO | Close to discovering the truth about (2,2) |
| SCOOB | 2020 animated film in which the Mystery Inc. gang attempts to stop a global "dogpocalypse" |
| HASAGO | Attempts to stop a criminal (3,1,2) |
| AVERMENT | It's said to stop people entering |
| PADLOCKS | The elderly stand in groups - they stop people getting in (8) |
| APPLETON | Sir Edward___; English physicist awarded a Nobel prize for discovering the ionosphere (8) |
| MALPIGHI | Italian physiologist who founded the science of microscopic anatomy in 1661, discovering the alveoli, capillaries etc. (8,8) |
| ROBINSON | Winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for his work in discovering the structure of alkaloids (last name only) |
| FRANKLIN | Rosalind, chemist born in 1920 whose work was key to discovering the structure of DNA (8) |
| TOSSPOTS | When you do this, stop people drinking too much (8) |
| MARCELLO | And 37 Italian physiologist who founded the science of microscopic anatomy in 1661, discovering the alveoli, capillaries etc. (8,8) |
| STANSELM | Benedictine monk, 11th-century archbishop of Canterbury, credited with discovering the 'ontological argument' for God's existence (2,6) |
| RUDEAWAKENING | Shock when discovering the truth of a situation (4,9) |
| IOU | Note from someone who made a serious mistake during a poker game |
| BARRICADE | Objects placed across a road to stop people getting past (9) |
| BUSINESSCARD | Handout from salesman functions to stop people carriers beginning to depreciate (8,4) |
| LITOTES | Doesn't tell the truth about a little drink - that's an understatement (7) |
