| BENDIGO | City in central Victoria, Australia settled in 1851 after the discovery of gold (7) |
| TASMANIA | Part of Australia settled, upon return, with great enthusiasm (8) |
| SCHEELE | Swedish chemist; one of the three claimants of the discovery of oxygen with Englishman Joseph Priestley and Frenchman Antoine Lavoisier (7) |
| GEELONG | Port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia |
| FLEMING | The Scottish bacteriologist credited with the discovery of penicillin (7) |
| LOCKYER | Norman ___, English astronomer whose spectroscopic analysis of the sun led to the discovery of helium (1886) |
| TIDDLER | Dirt led to the discovery of a small fish (7) |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712) |
| SEATTLE | US city in the Pacific Northwest, founded in 1851 (7) |
| CRYSTAL | Building designed by Joseph Paxton which housed the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 (7,6) |
| ALBERTA | Province: one close to Victoria, Australia originally (7) |
| REUTERS | Founded in 1851, this British-based company is considered the most reliable and impartial provider of world news |
| CORI | First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (surname only) |
| BAPTIST | NZ church was in Nelson, in 1851 (7) |
| SEABORG | Scientist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for involvement in the discovery and investig |
| ABERDEEN | Which city council had to rehome 500 tenants after the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete?(8) |
| MEDICALADVANCEMENTS | 100th Anniversary! The discovery of Insulin in 1921 by Canadian researchers Banting and Best is among the greatest of these in the world: 2 wds. |
| DNA | National ___ Day (April 25, commemorating the 1953 publication of the discovery of its double-helix structure; you can discover six strands of it in the theme entries) |
| AMERICA | Cup winner in 1851 |
| STRIKE | Act of knocking down all pins with the first ball in tenpin bowling; or, a discovery of gold or other minerals (6) |
