| UMBERTOECO | Author of "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Prague Cemetery" |
| ECOS | Author of "Foucault's Pendulum" and family |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| DEADLANGUAGES | Characters in The Prague Cemetery, for example, with Czech and French and those types who are no longer vocal (4,9) |
| WAGATTHEWA | In Scotland and Northumbria, an old name for a hanging clock with pendulum and weights exposed, and in folklore, a brownie dwelling in the kitchen |
| BOHEA | Tea taken by the motorway out of the Prague area (5) |
| UMBERTO | --- Eco, author of The Name Of The Rose and Foucault's Pendulum (7) |
| PRESS | William N Oatis was the Prague bureau chief for the news agency, Associated ..., when he was arrested as a spy by the communist authorities in 1951 |
| DUBCEK | Alexander, Czech reformist politician who led the Prague Spring of 1968 (6) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the discoverer of the isochronism of a pendulum who improved upon the design of the refracting telescope to observe the four largest moons of Jupiter (7) |
| EDGARALLANPOE | American poet and short story writer whose tales included The Fall Of The House Of Usher and The Pit And The Pendulum (5,5,3) |
| PHYSICS | Simply from "nature" or "natural things", the science of energy and matter, including the dynamics of Saturn's rings, mechanics of springs and Q factor of pendulum swings (7) |
| POE | Surname of the author of The Pit and the Pendulum, etc. (3) |
| HUYGENS | Dutch scientist who invented the pendulum clock, founded the wave theory of light, first recognised the true shape of Satum's rings and discovered the latter's moon. Titan (7) |
| PENDULUM | Foucault's ____, 1988 novel by Umberto Eco concerning conspiracy theories (8) |
| SWING | The compass or sweep of a golf club, pendulum, trapeze or of one of the balls of a Newton's cradle (5) |
| THEPIT | ___ And The Pendulum, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3) |
| ADIEU | Foucault's farewell |
| LENGTH | The distance between point of suspension and point of oscillation of a pendulum (6) |
| FOUCAULT | Leon ___, French physicist who demonstrated the rotation of the earth on its axis by means of the pendulum named after him |
