| READING | Doing some research on a place (7) |
| SCOUTOUTSCOTTIE | Do some research on a dog? |
| READSUP | Does some research on what's in bread, supposedly (5,2) |
| RETREAT | Fall back on a place of seclusion (7) |
| OPACITY | Work on a place that is incomprehensible |
| BALLAST | Recall place for research on ultimate weight of a ship (7) |
| MAESTRI | Experts on east involved in Market Research on India (7) |
| GOODALL | English primatologist known for her longterm research on chimpanzees (7) |
| WINDAUS | German organic chemist awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1928 for research on vitamin D (7) |
| IGNOBEL | Prize given to scientific research on, for example, magnetically levitating a frog or feeding lizards pizza |
| HEARTHS | Latest bit of research on planet's hot locations? |
| VIEWFINDER | One who does market research on a camera? |
| OPPO | Research on a political rival, briefly |
| FEYNMAN | Richard ___, US physicist noted for his research on quantum electrodynamics; Nobel Prize for Physics (1965) |
| AIRLINEFOOD | Set to disrupt the toupee industry, research on a newly discovered supplement has earned it the nickname ... |
| ADDISABABA | A theologian is, with a bishop, repeatedly descending on a place in Africa |
| HILT | Keep a firm grip on a place of confinement (4) |
| SAGACITY | Wisdom of a series of novels on a place (8) |
| CELL | Some research suggests that the T ___, a type of leukocyte, might provide some COVID-19 immunity |
| SEAR | Some research involving a gun component (4) |
