| LOCKYER | Helium discoverer who founded the journal Nature; his loan collection contributed towards the establishment of the Science Museum (7) |
| EMMA | Anarchist Goldman who founded the journal "Mother Earth" |
| RAMSAY | Helium discoverer Sir William ___ |
| ALANHALE | Comet co-discoverer who shares his name with a father-and-son acting pair |
| JENNER | Edward -; smallpox vaccine discoverer who became known as the "father of immunology" (6) |
| GELLMANN | Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proposed the concept of strangeness in quarks and contributed towards the classification of elementary particles (4-4) |
| HERBERT | Humorist who wrote for Punch and contributed towards the reform of several divorce laws (7) |
| SCHEELE | Carl Wilhelm -; chemist who contributed towards the discovery of oxygen (7) |
| YOUNG | Polymath who contributed towards the wave theory of light (5) |
| CHAUCER | Author whose poem The Parliament of Fowls is said to have contributed towards the tradition of Valentine's Day (7) |
| EINSTEIN | Scientist whose Annus Mirabilis papers contributed towards the foundation of modern physics (8) |
| HESS | Geologist whose theories on seafloor spreading contributed towards the understanding of plate tectonics (4) |
| 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) |
| GIGOLO | Joe from The Journal upsets the lead from Oklahoma and The Playboy (6) |
| LESMURRAY | Aust. poet who was the literary editor of the journal Quadrant (3,5) |
| TESLA | SI unit of magnetic flux density named after a scientist who contributed towards electricity and magnetism (5) |
| PASCAL | Scientist who contributed towards hydraulics and atmospheric pressure, developed probability theory with Fermat and invented a calculator (6) |
| DRAPER | Dealer in textiles; or, an astrophotographer who contributed towards stellar classification (6) |
| VICTORIA | Queen who reigned for some 64 years and produced a book titled Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands detailing her visits to Scotland with her husband, Prince Albert (8) |
| AVIARY | A verbose leader from The Journal needs no introduction, as it's for the birds (6) |
