| LOUISPASTEUR | Bacteriologist who helped to finally discredit the theory of spontaneous generation (of living things) |
| SPALLANZANI | Italian scientist who helped disprove the theory of spontaneous generation, d.1799 (11) |
| STAR | Senna's first to discredit the lead (4) |
| ABIOGENETIC | Of spontaneous generation |
| JEANLAFITTE | French-born pirate who helped to defend New Orleans from the British in the final battle of the War of 1812 |
| CORDELLHULL | US secretary of state who helped to found the United Nations; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 (7,4) |
| YOUNG | Physicist and Egyptologist who helped to establish the wave theory of light and assisted in the Rosetta Stone's decipherment (5) |
| WAKEFIELD | Which Adelaide street is named after the man who helped to end transportation to Australia and developed the idea of funded emigration? (9) |
| JOANBAEZ | American folk singer, songwriter and activist who helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to prominence |
| IGNESFATUI | Examples of spontaneous combustion of gases which flit over marshy ground, deluding people who follow them (5,5) |
| ANEURINBEVAN | Welsh MP who helped to create the NHS as the UK's first minister of health, 1945-1951 (7,5) |
| ABIOGENIST | One believes in spontaneous generation - a being is to break free? |
| CRICK | Francis --, molecular biologist who helped to discover the helical structure of DNA (5) |
| SPIRIT | The force of life that animates the body of living things (6) |
| SMOKEYROBINSON | U.S. singer/songwriter who helped to define the Motown sound with The Miracles (6,8) |
| FRANCIS | ___ Crick, molecular biologist who helped to reveal the structure of DNA (7) |
| PETRI | German bacteriologist who lent his name to a kind of dish |
| ROBERTKOCH | German bacteriologist who discovered the causative agents of diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax (6,4) |
| DOMINO | Fats, byname of U.S. singer and pianist born in 1928 who helped to define the New Orleans R&B sound (6) |
| NICHOLSON | Phoebe __, newcomer who helped to organise the music festival in Summer Bay (9) |
