| PRIMOLEVI | Italian writer and chemist noted for his 1975 work The Periodic Table (5,4) |
| LEVI | Primo -, Italian writer and chemist |
| FRAMPTON | Peter, guitarist and singer/songwriter noted for his 1975 song Show Me The Way (8) |
| GREGLAKE | Musician noted for his 1975 hit I Believe In Father Christmas (4,4) |
| LAKE | Bassist, guitarist and singer best known for his 1975 single I Believe in Father Christmas (4,4) |
| GREG | Bassist, guitarist and singer best known for his 1975 single I Believe in Father Christmas (4,4) |
| PROUT | William ___, English chemist noted for his modification of the atomic theory in the early 19th century |
| OSTWALD | Wilhelm ___, German chemist noted for his pioneering work on catalysis; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1909) |
| EICHENGRUN | Arthur ___ , German chemist noted for his work in plastics (10) |
| DISPENSER | I'd upset old poet and chemist perhaps (9) |
| SEABORG | Nuclear chemist noted for his contribution towards producing nine elements (including plutonium and nobelium) in a cyclotron (7) |
| DECOMPRESS | Release in chamber for Italian writer and politician in robes (10) |
| PINOCCHIO | Most famous creation of the Italian writer Carlo Collodi |
| BOCCACCIO | 14th-century Italian writer of the Decameron |
| FRANKLIN | Rosalind, British chemist noted for her research on DNA (8) |
| DEBUTANTE | Italian writer takes tube out to see novice (9) |
| FOSCOLO | Ugo --, Italian writer and poet (1778-1827) (7) |
| PENTECOST | Shut up Italian writer at street festival |
| SAILING | What Rod Stewart was doing on stormy waters in his 1975 Atlantic Crossing album |
| PIERRECURIE | French physicist and chemist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with his wife, Marie, and fellow countryman Henri Becquerel (6,5) |
