| SCHEELE | Karl Wilhelm, 18c chemist who discovered oxygen independently of Priestley (7) |
| CONTE | Hard crayon used by artists named after an 18c chemist (5) |
| PRIESTLEY | Joseph ___, English chemist who discovered oxygen independently of Scheele (9) |
| LEIBNIZ | Polymath who, among many things, devised a method of calculus, independently of Newton (7) |
| MICHAEL | English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (7,7) |
| FARADAY | English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (7,7) |
| PASTEUR | French chemist who discovered the principle of microbial fermentation (7) |
| BITCOIN | Digital currency that operates independently of Governments and banks (7) |
| JOSEPHPRIESTLEY | English chemist who discovered oxygen in 1774 (6,9) |
| SOBRERO | Ascanio, Italian chemist who discovered nitroglycerine (7) |
| SURVIVE | After about a month, baby moles are able to ___ independently of their mothers |
| FEMESOLE | A widow or unmarried woman, or one who trades independently of her husband |
| INSTINCT | "The very essence of _ is that it's followed independently of reason": Charles Darwin (8) |
| ALBERTHOFMANN | Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1943 (6,7) |
| HAHN | Otto -; Nobel Prize-winning German chemist who discovered the fission of heavy nuclei (4) |
| DAVY | English chemist who discovered the effects of laughing gas (4) |
| ALFRED | _ Bussel Wallace formulated his theory of evolution by natural selection independently of, and before publication by, Darwin (6) |
| FREESWIMMING | Sounds like no cost taking to sea to move independently of currents (4-8) |
| EYES | ___ work independently of each other, allowing them to keep one eye looking behind for predators |
| QUANGO | Organisation that is financed by a government but works independently of it (6) |
