| LINNAEUS | Deviser of a binomial classification system for animals and plants (8) |
| HABITAT | Tabitha makes a place for animals and plants |
| CAROLUS | Latin name for the Swedish botanist who established a binomial system of biological nomenclature (7,8) |
| BRAILLE | Louis, deviser of a system of writing for the blind (7) |
| ERWIN | ___ Schrodinger, deviser of a cat-based thought experiment |
| FAHRENHEIT | Gabriel, German deviser of a temperature scale (10) |
| ODYSSEUS | Mythical deviser of the Wooden Horse of Troy plan (8) |
| TAXONOMY | The process of naming and classifying things such as animals and plants into groups within a larger system (8) |
| MERCATOR | Deviser of projection (8) |
| MEMBRANE | Pliable sheet of tissue that covers or connects the organs/cells of animals and plants (8) |
| CUBERULE | Food classification system in which a Pop-Tart is considered a calzone |
| BACTERIA | Single-celled spiral or rodshaped organisms found in animals and plants (8) |
| PLANKTON | What are microscopic animals and plants that drift in open waters? (8) |
| ASHTREES | Woody plants known by their binomial name Fraxinus excelsior, currently under threat of the Chalara fraxinea disease in the UK (3,5) |
| TAUTONYM | Binomial name, such as Martes martes, Puffinus puffinus, Rattus rattus or Vulpes vulpes, in which generic and specific epithets are the same (8) |
| LANDRAIL | Grassland bird with chestnut markings on its wings, with the binomial name Crex crex (8) |
| INVENTOR | Deviser (8) |
| REDMAPLE | Deciduous tree from North America whose binomial name is Acer rubrum (3,5) |
| SWEETBAY | Evergreen tree, binomial name Laurus nobilis (5,3) |
| DESIGNER | Deviser |
