| SCISSION | Cut three scientists on first ship to Israel (8) |
| INSULIN | This hormone regulates the blood sugar levels; it was first isolated by two Canadian scientists on July 30, 1921 |
| ENDERS | Known as the father of modern vaccines, one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (6) |
| CARPATHIA | First ship to answer the SOS from the Titanic (9) |
| ANCON | SS ___ (first ship to pass through the Panama Canal) |
| DAGAMA | Portuguese explorer who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| VASCODAGAMA | Portuguese explorer who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| VASCO | And 8 Across Portuguese explorer who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| DOCKYARD | Cut three feet off a ship facility (8) |
| ANTELOPE | Gulliver's first ship in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) (8) |
| EINSTEIN | A German scientist on vacation with a German scientist (8) |
| HUCKABEE | US Ambassador to Israel Mike ___ (8) |
| DISRAELI | I'd go to Israel to see such a great politician |
| ETHIOPIA | 'Operation Solomon' in 1991 which airlifted some 14,000 Jews to Israel from this country (8) |
| EICHMANN | Nazi war criminal who fled to Argentina after WWII, Adolf ..., was located by Israeli agents in 1960 and taken to Israel for trial and execution |
| TOPNOTCH | First-class spinner cut (3-5) |
| SONINLAW | Daughter's spouse stupidly was in London, half cut (3-2-3) |
| ENDEAVOUR | Captain Cook's first ship - DCI Morse's first name (9) |
| EAGLE | First ship on the moon |
| NARK | There was an informer on Noah's first ship (4) |
