| HOOKE | Discoverer of the law of elasticity whose folio volume Micrographia illustrated with copperplate engravings was an early book published by the Royal Society (5) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| EULER | Discoverer of the law of quadratic reciprocity |
| ROBERTHOOKE | 17th century polymath who wrote Micrographia (1665) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the discoverer of the isochronism of a pendulum who improved upon the design of the refracting telescope to observe the four largest moons of Jupiter (7) |
| BAIL | Described in Law 8 of the Laws of Cricket, either of the two crosspieces bridging the stumps of a wicket (4) |
| EINSTEIN | Recipient of a Nobel prize "for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
| SPRING | Device whose expansion and compression is described in Robert Hooke's law of elasticity, or, a season associated with house cleaning and decluttering rituals (6) |
| ARNE | ___ Saknussemm, discoverer of the center of the earth in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" |
| INDIS | Containing the star known as the Persian, one of the constellations charted in Bayer's Uranometria by means of copperplate engraving (5) |
| ARK | From Old English for "box", the wooden chest in which the tablets of the laws of the ancient Israelites were kept; any coffer; Noah's ship; a toy depicting said vessel; or, any boat (3) |
| LBW | Dismissal governed by Law 36 of the Laws of Cricket as written by the MCC |
| ESTATE | Focus of the law of the land? |
| ISAACNEWTON | Formulator of the law of gravity who is buried at Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| NOMISM | On turning a variant of the Law Of Identity, another theory results (6) |
| STUMPED | Dismissed according to Law 39 of the Laws of Cricket (7) |
| GOULD | Ornithologist who learned taxidermy at Windsor Castle and published monographs illustrated with coloured plates including his five-volume Birds of Great Britain (5) |
| YOUNG | Presbyterian minister, naturalist and poet whose 1960 volume Collected Poems is illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassall (5) |
| THOMSON | J. J. -; discoverer of the electron whose son George co-discovered the diffraction of electrons by crystals (7) |
| DOPPLER | Discoverer of the effect of relative speed on the observed frequency of waves |
