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HARRISONDava Sobel's Longitude was about the horologist John ____
LONGITUDEDava Sobel's book about an 18th-century innovation in navigation (9)
SCANTYAble to set in midden - Cutty Sark's longitude was sorely thus (6)
CLOCKTOWERTruck carrying heavy pieces to the horologist?
MINUTERICEThe horologist ordered ___
TIMEPIECENo striking example of the horologist's craft (9)
WATCHMENGuards the horologists (8)
WATCHMANGuards the horologists (8)
INQUIRYThe Fraser ____ was about the construction of the Scottish Parliament Building
SOBEL"Longitude" author Dava
WAISTSWas about the first of the centres (6)
SCANDALWhich 1989 John Hurt film was about the Profumo affair? (7)
ELLOld fabric length unit that was about the distance from your nose to the tip of your fingers
DETONATENoted it was about the way to eat and explode (8)
TOMPIONHorologist whose association with Robert Hooke led him to make one of the first balance-spring watches and who was the first to inscribe serial numbers on the back of timepieces (7)
CLOCKFluffy seed head of a dandelion; the name of the diminutive family in Mary Nortons novel The Borrowers; or, an item made by a horologist (5)
SUNDIALInstrument with a gnomon for telling the time; one of the devices made by horologist Thomas Tompion (7)
LOUPEFrom the Old French meaning "imperfect precious stone", the small magnifying glass of a gemologist, horologist or jeweller (5)
WATCHMAKERKeep your eye on the producer and horologist (10)
HUYGENSDutch scientist and horologist whose achievements include formulating the wave theory of light, inve