| MENDEL | Gregor _, Augustinian abbot and scientist whose study of pea plants led to the foundation of genetics as a scientific discipline (6) |
| GREGORMENDEL | Augustinian priest and scientist whose study of pea plants led to the foundation of genetics (6,6) |
| PAVLOV | Russian physiologist whose studies of the salivation rate among dogs led to the foundation of classical conditioning (6) |
| ASTRONOMER | Scientist whose study involves moon, star and heart of asteroid? (10) |
| SPEARMINT | Sister with a lot of money getting hold of pea plant |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| THOMAS | German Augustinian monk credited as the author of 15th-century devotional work The Imitation of Chri |
| BERNARD | --- of Clairvaux, French abbot and co-founder of the Knights Templar (7) |
| GENES | Units of heredity first discovered or suggested by Gregor Mendel following his experiments with pea plants (5) |
| BENJAMIN | U.S statesman and scientist whose research proved that lightning and electricity are identical (8) |
| FRANKLIN | U.S statesman and scientist whose research proved that lightning and electricity are identical (8) |
| CHRISTOPHERWREN | English architect and scientist whose tercentenary of death is being marked in 2023 (11,4) |
| BEQUEATH | Leave it, as it's fairly unique in strike march to The Foundation (8) |
| DISASTER | A little girl's flowering plant led to an unfortunate event (8) |
| DRYDEN | Poet whose study was out of the rain? (6) |
| UROLOGIST | Golf is out perhaps for one whose study is out of this world (9) |
| AKEMPIS | German Augustinian monk, author of The Imitation of Christ (6,1,6) |
| URSULINES | Members of an Augustinian order of nuns founded by St .Angela in 1535 |
| LACOCK | ____ Abbey, country house in Wiltshire founded as a nunnery of the Augustinian order (6) |
