| OTTOLOEWI | Joint Nobel prizewinner for discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses (4,5) |
| LOEWI | Co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses (5) |
| DALE | Henry Hallett -; physiologist who shared a Nobel Prize for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses (4) |
| DNA | Nobel prizewinner for medicine Maurice Wilkins was a pioneer in the discovery of this structure of l |
| AERATE | Expose to the chemical or mechanical action of the air / oxygenate |
| METABOLIC | Pertaining to the chemical reactions that occur in a cell or organism (9) |
| DEKLERK | F.W. __, joint Nobel laureate with Nelson Mandela in 1993 (2,5) |
| KICKSTART | Gives up pastry on first impulse (4,5) |
| CHLORINE | Element useful in Maintain osmotic balance of body fluids, transmission of nerve impulses (8) |
| OPTIC | The ___ nerve carries sensory nerve impulses from the retina toward the visual centres in the brain (5) |
| STEINBECK | American author and Nobel Prizewinner who wrote Of Mice And Men, The Grapes Of Wrath, etc. (4,9) |
| NEURON | Transmitter of nerve impulses |
| JOHN | And 4A American author and Nobel Prizewinner who wrote Of Mice And Men, The Grapes Of Wrath, etc. (4,9) |
| ERNESTRUTHERFORD | Nobel prizewinner often called "the father of nuclear physics" (6,10) |
| JULIANBARNES | 2011 Booker prizewinner for The Sense of an Ending |
| SENSORY | Cells/hairs (in the cochlea) are set into vibrations/stimulated producing nerve impulses in the auditory nerve (7) |
| COCHLEA | What is the spiral cavity of the internal ear where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses? (7) |
| THEELECTEDMEMBER | Bernice Rubens became the first female Booker prizewinner for this novel |
| THOMSON | Surname of two Nobel Prizewinners, father and son, noted for their work in physics (7) |
| MORTIMER | ____ Wheeler, British archaeologist born in 1890 noted for discoveries in Britain and India (8) |
