| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| NEALE | Surname of the founder of the Cambridge Camden Society and author of many well-known hymns, including Jerusalem The Golden (5) |
| ALSO | It's available from the Royal Society and from official sources, too (4) |
| RAVELING | Unweaving |
| RAVELLING | Unweaving |
| UNTANGLING | Unweaving |
| UNWINDING | Unweaving |
| COURGETTE | Get into royal society and start to eat zucchini (9) |
| KEBLE | John -, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of book of poems The Christian Year (5) |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| WEST | Pen name of the author of books including The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows, Sunflower and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (4) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of Mary Ann Evans, author of books including The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Scenes of Clerical Life collection of three stories (5) |
| LESSING | Born in Persia and brought up in Rhodesia until moving to London in her 30s, author of books including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook (7) |
| TREE | Author of books including The Bird Man, Islands in the Clouds and Wilding (4) |
| GRAVES | Robert -; author of books including the historical novel I, Claudius and the autobiographical classic Goodbye to All That (6) |
| ORRERY | Clockwork model of the solar system named after the title of Fellow of the Royal Society Charles Boer (6) |
| THACKERAY | William Makepeace -; author of books including Vanity Fair, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond and The Fitz-Boodle Papers (9) |
| ADAMS | Author of books including Watership Down, Nature Through the Seasons, The Tyger Voyage and The Ship's Cat (5) |
| EVELYN | Diarist and founding fellow of the Royal Society who, on December 25 in 1657, found himself arrested at gunpoint and detained as a prisoner for attending church during the Puritan ban on Christmas (6) |
| WILSON | Food writer and MasterChef semi-finalist "Bee" whose father is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an award-winning biographer (6) |
