| BOPP | He independently discovered the same comet as Hale |
| GANYMEDE | Largest moon of Jupiter, independently discovered by Simon Marius and Galileo Galilei in 1610 (8) |
| COMET | Celestial body such as Hale-Bopp (5) |
| ILLER | Not as hale |
| ADAMS | Astronomer who explained the origin of the Leonid meteor swarms, described the motion of the Moon and independently calculated Neptune's position, by mathematical rather than observational means (5) |
| ZERO | Concept discovered independently by the Maya |
| GREATMINDSTHINKALIKE | Why two people might come up with the same idea independently |
| DIFFERENTIAL | Gear train which allows wheels on the same axle to rotate independently |
| BIBBY | Founded in Liverpool in 1807 by John ___ (d.1840), the ___ Line is the world's oldest independently owned deep sea shipping line (5) |
| SCHEELE | Karl Wilhelm ___, 18th-century chemist who discovered oxygen independently of Priestley (7) |
| MICROBREWERY | Independently owned suds producer (and the suds in question) |
| MEDIABLOGGERS | They may write independently about the press |
| ORGANISM | Living thing that has the ability to act independently (8) |
| CORD | Cut the ___ (start to act independently) |
| PADDLEONES | Travel independently on the water? (6,4,3,5) |
| OWNCANOE | Travel independently on the water? (6,4,3,5) |
| APARTOTEL | Independently books with the Spanish provider of mixed accommodation |
| PRIESTLEY | Joseph ___, English chemist who discovered oxygen independently of Scheele (9) |
| ENTITY | Hospital department x-ray ultimately capturing it as something existing independently (6) |
| FREE | Liberate a man, maybe, who acts independently as one... (4,5) |
