| GENETICS | German friar and scientist Gregor Mendel is known as the father of ___, thanks to his pea plant experiments which established the rules of heredity |
| ABUSE | Summer Bay's Bree Cameron is a victim of ___ thanks to her husband Jacob (5) |
| MENDEL | scientist Gregor |
| GROCER | Shopkeeper, Mr Grits perhaps, who's always full of beans, knows his onions and minds his peas and cues (6) |
| TILER | Slater was a tippler but he dropped his peas (5) |
| GREGORMENDEL | Augustinian priest and scientist whose study of pea plants led to the foundation of genetics (6,6) |
| GENES | Units of heredity first discovered or suggested by Gregor Mendel following his experiments with pea plants (5) |
| FIRETRAP | Friar and pet go around building that is dangerous in the event of a conflagration (8) |
| PLASTICS | The Father of ___, moniker for the inventor Leo Baekeland |
| DADDY | Corrie teen Will believed he was going to become a ___ thanks to Megan's lies (5) |
| PRATT | Which Quinnsworth executive became a household name in the 80s thanks to his TV ads? (5) |
| LANCELOT | Acerbic Arthur's dying thanks to his most gallant knight errant, namely, could sound of irony!? (8) |
| AXIAL | Like the flower positions of Mendel's pea plants that weren't on the branch tips |
| WHIST | "The Father of ___" (Edmond Hoyle) |
| BREWER | Confines of boozer were heaving ___ thanks to me? (6) |
| DYER | Danny _, actor set to become a grandad thanks to his daughter Dani (4) |
| EMINEM | Rapper about to become a grandad thanks to his daughter Hailie Jade (6) |
| CARPINI | John of Plano ___, Franciscan friar and traveller in the Mongol empire |
| ANTHONIOFPADUA | Portuguese Franciscan friar and saint (1195-1231) whose name is traditionally invoked when searching for lost items (7,2,5) |
| DOMINICAN | ____ Order, order of preaching friars and nuns founded in 1215 by the eponymous Saint (9) |
