| CAVENDISH | Chemist and physicist who discovered hydrogen; or, the "Manx Missile" who became the first Briton to win the Tour de France green jersey in 2011 (9) |
| WIGGINS | Who became the first Briton to win the Tour de France in 2012? (7) |
| CROOKES | Sir William -; chemist and physicist who discovered thallium and invented the spinthariscope (7) |
| GAS | Hydrogen or the like found in smorgasbords |
| ISLEOFMAN | Crown dependency with the capital Douglas, where "Manx Missile" professional cyclist Mark Cavendish was born (4,2,3) |
| DEWAR | British chemist and physicist who developed a vacuum flask, d1923 (5) |
| STIRLING | He beat the great Juan Fangio into second place, becoming the first Briton to win the Mille Miglia; |
| FATIMA | _ Whitbread, retired javelin thrower and the first Briton to set a world record in a throwing event (6) |
| SANDYLYLE | (Golf) Scot who was first Briton to win the U.S. Masters, in 1988 (5,4) |
| HUYGENS | Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn. He discovered Saturn's moon Titan with a telescope in 1655. |
| GALILEO | First name of the Pisa-born astronomer and physicist who built a telescope and discovered four of Ju |
| FIENNES | Old Etonian adventurer who, in 2015 aged 71, became the oldest Briton to complete the Marathon des Sables (7) |
| ARRHENIUS | Svante August ___, (1859-1927), Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his work on the theory of electrolytic dissociation and his model of the greenhouse effect: Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1903 (9) |
| ASTON | Glass-blower, pianist and physicist who mastered surfing in Honolulu and developed the mass spectrograph to accurately measure neon isotopes (5) |
| GILBERT | Physicist who discovered how to make magnets and coined the new Latin word "electricus" (7) |
| ROENTGEN | German physicist who discovered x-rays and who has the unit of radiation exposure named after him (8) |
| DAGUERRE | Louis-Jacques-Mande ___, French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of ph |
| PASCAL | French philosopher, mathematician and physicist who gave his name to the derived SI unit of pressure (6,6) |
| BLAISE | French philosopher, mathematician and physicist who gave his name to the derived SI unit of pressure (6,6) |
| HEAVISIDE | Oliver ___, self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits |
