| SHERLOCK | In 2002, The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an honorary fellowship to which fictitious English sleuth? (8,6) |
| HOLMES | In 2002, The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an honorary fellowship to which fictitious English sleuth? (8,6) |
| NYIRAGONGO | Active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. In 2002 the city of Goma was largely destroyed by its lava, leaving more than 100,000 people homeless and creating a refugee crisis. (10 |
| JEKYLL | Which fictitious doctor used a drug to create a separate evil personality? (6) |
| NEA | Government group that awards National Heritage Fellowships to folk performers: Abbr. |
| EADIE | Thomas W. ___ Medal (an award of the Royal Society of Canada) |
| WILSON | Food writer and MasterChef semi-finalist "Bee" whose father is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an award-winning biographer (6) |
| STTRINIANS | Fictitious English school created by the cartoonist Ronald Searle (2,8) |
| MIDDLEMARCH | George Eliot novel set in a fictitious English town |
| SILVA | From the Latin meaning "wood", the assemblage of trees in a given area; or, the truncated title of John Evelyn's forestry discourse presented to the Royal Society in 1662 (5) |
| SYLVA | From the Latin meaning "wood", the assemblage of trees in a given area; or, the truncated title of John Evelyn's forestry discourse presented to the Royal Society in 1662 (5) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| BACALL | US actress awarded an Honorary Oscar in 2009 'in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures' (6) |
| IRIANJAYA | From 1973-2002, the name of the Indonesian half of the island now called Papua or Western New Guinea (5,4) |
| MOMA | N.Y.C. institution awarded an honorary Oscar for changing the public's perception of movies (1979) |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| NEWTON | Scientist whose magnum opus Principia was published by the Royal Society with the help of Edmond Halley in 1687 and remains one of the world's most influential works |
| EGGSAUCE | Fish dish topping, according to Randolph Ross in a CrosSynergy puzzle on October 27, 2002 (the const |
| ORRERY | Clockwork model of the solar system named after the title of Fellow of the Royal Society Charles Boer (6) |
| LAURENBACALL | Stage name of US actress Betty Joan Perske, awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2009 (6,6) |
