| SCHEELE | Carl Wilhelm, 18th-century chemist who discovered oxygen independently of Priestley (7) |
| PRIESTLEY | Joseph ___, English chemist who discovered oxygen independently of Scheele (9) |
| FARADAY | 18th Century English chemist who discovered electromagetic induction (7) |
| MICHAEL | English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (7,7) |
| PASTEUR | French chemist who discovered the principle of microbial fermentation (7) |
| SOBRERO | Ascanio, Italian chemist who discovered nitroglycerine (7) |
| LEIBNIZ | Polymath who, among many things, devised a method of calculus, independently of Newton (7) |
| BITCOIN | Digital currency that operates independently of Governments and banks (7) |
| SURVIVE | After about a month, baby moles are able to ___ independently of their mothers |
| JOSEPHPRIESTLEY | English chemist who discovered oxygen in 1774 (6,9) |
| BOULTON | Lunar Society co-founder who met contemporaries including Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and business partner James Watt during the full moon (7) |
| BEVERLY | Jason Priestley teen TV series, ------- Hills, 90210 (7) |
| CONWAYS | 1937 stage play by J B Priestley (4,3,3,7) |
| BRANDON | Jason Priestley in Beverly Hills 90210 (7) |
| ALBERTHOFMANN | Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1943 (6,7) |
| HAHN | Otto -; Nobel Prize-winning German chemist who discovered the fission of heavy nuclei (4) |
| DAVY | English chemist who discovered the effects of laughing gas (4) |
| MOSANDER | Carl Gustaf _. Swedish chemist who discovered the rare earth elements lanthanum. erbium and terbium (8) |
| BOYLE | Robert ___, 17th-century chemist who established that air has weight (5) |
| ALICEBALL | Early-twentieth-century chemist who developed an early treatment for leprosy |