| NEWTON | English physicist, remembered for his law of gravitation, d. 1726 (6) |
| ISAACNEWTON | Physicist noted particularly for his law of gravitation (5,6) |
| FRANCK | Physicist remembered for his work with Gustav Hertz discovering the laws which govern the impact of |
| OCCAM | Franciscan friar known for his law of parsimony in problem solving (5) |
| DOPPLER | Physicist remembered for his explanation of the apparent change in the frequency of a wavelength caused by the relative motion of the source (7) |
| KEPLER | Astronomer famed for his laws of planetary motion (6) |
| PHOBOS | One of two Martian moons coincidentally similar to those described by Jonathan Swift in his 1726 fantasy Gulliver's Travels (6) |
| CEDUNA | Near which town on the eastern Great Australian Bight is the Nuyts Archipelago, the location Swift used as the model for his lands of Lilliput and Blefuscu in Gulliver's Travels (1726) |
| LEMUEL | Forename of Gulliver in a 1726 tale by Jonathan Swift (6) |
| VERNON | Richard -, 1726-1800, founder of the Jockey Club (6) |
| LEGIST | To the French, the main point is that he knows his laws (6) |
| LAPUTA | Flying island in 1726 Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (6) |
| SEQUEL | Central character in a 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift (6,8) |
| THORNDIKE | Psychologist whose study of the learning ability of hungry cats to escape from his "puzzle box" invention contributed towards our understanding of how habits are formed and his "law of effect" (9) |
| YAHOOS | Primitive creatures in the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, their name now meaning a lout or hooligan (6) |
| ISAAC | First name of the physicist whose apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor is said to have inspired his law of universal gravitation (5) |
| LEGAL | Relating to the law of gravitation originally observed in a field near Luxembourg |
| LOG | Original laws of gravitation cut down trees (3) |
| DRACO | Greek famous for his laws |
| APPLE | What kind of object is said to have inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation? (5) |
