| ELMOSFIRE | Electrical weather phenomenon St ..., noted by Charles Darwin as pointing the masts of the HMS Beagl |
| STELMOSFIRE | Luminous region that sometimes appears around church spires and the masts of ships (2,5,4) |
| LIGHTNING | Electrical weather phenomenon (9) |
| IGUANA | Large Galapagos lizard - they were described by Charles Darwin as ugly animals with a singularly stu |
| JEROME | Saint noted for his Latin translation of the bible, the Vulgate (6) |
| ANTHONY | ____ the Great, saint noted for resisting temptations in the Egyptian desert (7) |
| BLIGH | Captain of the HMS Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied (5) |
| RIGGING | Ropes etc. by which the mast of a ship are supported and the sails set |
| EVOLUTION | From the Latin meaning "unrolling", a process described by Charles Darwin in his theory of natural selection; or, one of a series of military manoeuvres (9) |
| MEADOWS | Hayfields such as those surveyed by Charles Darwin at his former home Down House, where he developed the theories in On the Origin of Species (7) |
| YARDARMS | The arms of the Forward and Main masts of a sailing ship (8) |
| STORMGLASS | Weather forecasting device developed by Admiral Robert FitzRoy and used on his voyage with Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle |
| YARDARM | End of a beam supportA-ing a sail on the mast of a square-rigger (7) |
| FITZROY | Robert __, captain of the HMS Beagle on which Darwin sailed |
| TURNIPS | What vegetable was the subject of notes made by Charles Darwin on his wedding night? (7) |
| ORIGIN | On the ___ of Species, work on evolution by Charles Darwin published in 1859 (6) |
| HEADING | The direction in which a seagoing vessel's bow is pointing; the title of an article, chapter, document or page; or, the adit, drift or gallery of a mine (7) |
| SPECIES | Book by Charles Darwin, On The Origin of ... |
| DESCENTOFMAN | The --- --- ---, 1871 book by Charles Darwin applying evolutionary theory to human evolution (7,2,3) |
| TORTOISE | What animal was Harriet, supposedly owned by Charles Darwin, then later by Steve Irwin? (8) |
