| RICHTER | Charies -, American seismologist who created a scale to measure the magnitude of earthquakes (7) |
| CHARLESRICHTER | American seismologist who created a scale to measure the magnitude of earthquakes (7,7) |
| KINSEY | Sexologist who created a scale to measure sexual orientation |
| INSULIN | Discovered by Frederick Banting and Charies Best under the directorship of John Madeod, hormone first used as a treatment of diabetes in 1922 (7) |
| ANNE | Christian name of Prince Charies' sister (4) |
| NORA | Mrs. Charies |
| RICHTERSCALE | Measure of the magnitude of earthquakes (7,5) |
| CELSIUS | Heat scale to slice off American (7) |
| BALANCE | Put more clothes on scales to restore equality (7,3,7) |
| DOLPHIN | Fish-eater adding large scale to exhaust |
| OLDHAM | Richard, Dublinborn seismologist who established the existence of the Earth's core (6) |
| MOHS | Friedrich who created a scale of hardness |
| STRAIN | In mechanics, term for the magnitude of the deformation of an object, described in Hooke's law (6) |
| SPEED | Measured on a gauge originally invented by Josip Belui, the general word for the magnitude of velocity (5) |
| DIET | You probably need a scale to tell if it's working |
| MICROSCOPE | The magnitude of it is down to infinitesimal reach. (10) |
| FAHRENHEIT | Scientific instrument maker and physicist who devised a temperature scale to go with his invention of the mercury-in-glass thermometer (10) |
| CALIBRATE | Mark a scale to use in taking readings (9) |
| EXTREMITY | The magnitude of the limit (9) |
| BALANCESHEET | The bean scale, to put it another way? (7,5) |
