| BEAUFORT | Francis ?, British rear admiral who devised a scale of wind velocities in 1805 |
| CHICHESTER | Francis ?, British yachtsman who sailed round the world in Gipsy Moth IV (10) |
| JOHNFRANKLIN | Rear admiral who led an expedition to the Northwest Passage in 1845 (4,8) |
| PYM | Francis ?, British Foreign Secretary from 1982-83 (3) |
| DEEPSPACE | Different velocities in two directions in astronomical region (4,5) |
| BEAUFORTSCALE | In meteorology, a measure of wind velocities on objects on land or at sea (8,5) |
| SCOVILLE | Pharmacist who devised a scale based on the measurement of the pungency or spiciness of chillies (8) |
| CRICK | Francis ---, British scientist who identified the molecular structure of DNA with James Watson in 1953 (5) |
| LIGHTAIR | Wind registering number 1 on the Beaufort scale of wind force (5,3) |
| HOWITZER | A short-barrelled piece of artillery designed for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities (8) |
| LAMINAR | Of fluid flow, occurring in non-turbulent parallel layers moving at different velocities (7) |
| DRAKE | Francis ?, second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 |
| MACH | Pioneer in the study of supersonic velocities |
| ORRERY | Mechanical model of the solar system showing the orbits of the planets around the sun at the correct relative velocities (6) |
| BACON | Francis ?, painter whose works include 1944's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion |
| MATTHEWS | Francis ?, actor who played the title role in BBC TV crime drama series Paul Temple (8) |
| LYTE | Henry Francis ?, author of the words of the hymn Abide with Me (4) |
| DODGE | John Francis ?, US automobile manufacturing pioneer who died in 1920 |
| OSTWALD | Nobel laureate noted for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, reaction velocities and the dev |
| BRABAZON | Francis ?, London-born poet whose volumes include In Dust I Sing (8) |
