| CHARLESLYELL | In 1830-33, this geologist publishes Principles of Geology, followed in 1838 by Elements of Geology, in which he demonstrates that the processes that changed the earth in the past are continuing. What |
| LYELL | Lawyer-turned-geoscientist who propounded the evolutionary theory of uniformitarianism in his three-volume Principles of Geology (5) |
| OVERTAX | Require too much of green area, restricted by elements of game (7) |
| OVERCOME | Affected by elements of visit being in wrong order |
| COWARD | Playwright turned inside out by elements of former problem with Iceland (6) |
| NEONOIR | South American state reflected by element of Blade Runner, say (3-4) |
| WEATHERBEATEN | Affected by elements in answer framed by feeble person, sage perhaps scoffed |
| CHEROKEE | The vast majority of this native North American people were forced to move to a reservation west of the Mississippi in 1838 (8) |
| NATAL | Former province of E. South Africa set up as a republic by the Boers in 1838 (5) |
| PASTRYWAR | Name given to the invasion of Mexico by French forces in 1838 |
| PETROLOGY | Branch of geology concerned with the study of the composition, origin and structure of rocks (9) |
| CARBONARI | Air-conditioned by element of old Italian society (9) |
| SERIES | Lake circled by element of shipping line |
| PILOT | Aviator, one encapsulated by element of novel? (5) |
| GROUP | Any one of the vertical columns on a periodic table occupied by elements with similar properties; or, an ensemble of musicians (5) |
| FORFARSHIRE | Steamboat, wrecked in 1838, from which nine crew members were rescued by Grace Darling and her father (11) |
| GRACEDARLING | Heroine famous for her rescue of shipwrecked sailors in 1838 (5,7) |
| MACH | Ernst, Austrian physicist born in 1838 who has a number in fluid mechanics named after him (4) |
| KNORR | Company best known for dehydrated stock and soup that was founded in Germany in 1838 |
| ADAMSEDGWICK | 19th-century professor of geology at Cambridge, who established the Cambrian period from research in Wales |
