| HODGKIN | Dorothy -, 1910-1994, British chemist born in Egypt (7) |
| SADSACK | Oldest of the titular Raggy Dolls in a 1986-1994 British cartoon series, of gloomy disposition (3,4) |
| NATAL | Former (1910-1994) province of eastern South Africa named from the Portuguese word for Christmas (5) |
| CAVENDISH | Henry ?, British chemist born in 1731 who recognised hydrogen |
| PRICE | 1994 British Open champ |
| OMARSHARIF | Actor born in Egypt |
| PLOTINUS | Roman philosopher, born in Egypt c. 205 AD, regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism (8) |
| ARAB | Person born in Egypt |
| HODGSON | Dorothy --, Nobel Prize-winning British chemist (7) |
| NOBEL | Prize chemist born in festive season (5) |
| MARIECURIE | Chemist born in Warsaw, Poland |
| PRIESTLEY | Joseph -, English chemist born in 1733 often credited with the discovery of oxygen |
| STAHL | Georg, German chemist born in 1660 who expounded the phlogiston theory (5) |
| NERNST | Walter, German physical chemist born in 1864 (6) |
| JOSEPH | English chemist born in 1733 often credited with the discovery of oxygen (6,9) |
| FRANKLIN | Rosalind, chemist born in 1920 whose work was key to discovering the structure of DNA (8) |
| RAMSAY | British chemist who discovered neon, argon, krypton and xenon, and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (last name only) |
| MAUVE | Colour of the first aniline dye, patented by British chemist William Henry Perkin in 1856 (5) |
| DAVY | British chemist and inventor, born Cornwall 1778, who discovered sodium, potassium and calcium (4) |
| NEON | Fifth most abundant element in the universe, discovered by British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898 (4) |
