| HOOKE | English polymath who formulated the law of elasticity, developed the balance spring, built the first Gregorian telescope and coined the word "cell"(5) |
| TOMPION | Horologist whose association with Robert Hooke led him to make one of the first balance-spring watches and who was the first to inscribe serial numbers on the back of timepieces (7) |
| ROBERTHOOKE | English scientist (1635-1703) who formulated the law of elasticity ('As the extension, so the force') in 1660 (6,5) |
| 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) |
| ISAAC | English polymath who formulated his theory of gravity whilst watching apples fall, _ Newton (5) |
| ISAACNEWTON | English philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727) who formulated the law of gravitation: 2 wds. |
| BABBAGE | Charles _, English polymath who originated the concept of a digital programmable computer (7) |
| NEWTON | English polymath who discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus, Isaac _ (6) |
| PROUST | Joseph Louis -; analytical chemist who formulated the law of definite proportions (6) |
| LAPLACE | Pierre-Simon ___, French polymath who formulated the nebular hypothesis (7) |
| KEPLER | Astronomer who formulated the laws of orbital motion |
| AVICENNA | Name by which the Persian polymath who wrote The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine is known (8) |
| CHESTERTON | "Prince of paradox" and polymath who penned a series of 53 stories featuring the puzzling priest-detective of Kembleford, Father Brown (10) |
| KINGSLEY | Priestly polymath who was a champion of "muscular Christianity", a chaplain to Queen Victoria and also John Henry Newman's theological foe, but is perhaps best known as the author of The Water-Babies |
| THOMASYOUNG | Polymath who helped establish the wave theory of light and decipher the Rosetta Stone (6,5) |
| LEONARDO | First name of the polymath who created Salvator Mundi (8) |
| LEIBNIZ | Polymath who, among many things, devised a method of calculus, independently of Newton (7) |
| YOUNG | Polymath who contributed towards the wave theory of light (5) |
| CYANOTYPE | Photographic process invented by English polymath John Herschel in 1842, now known as blueprint (9) |
| VINCI | Tuscan commune where the polymath who painted Salvator Mundi was born (5) |
