| FOUCAULT | Leon ___, French physicist who demonstrated the rotation of the earth on its axis by means of the pendulum named after him |
| DAY | One revolution of the earth on its axis |
| BAIRD | John Logie ___, Scottish engineer who demonstrated the first working television system in 1926 |
| PIT | Edgar Allan Poe tale with (spoiler warning) an uncharacteristically happy ending, The ... And The Pe |
| GYMSLIP | Simply force it to break the PE wear (7) |
| AXIAL | Like the rotation of the earth |
| ANTICLOCKWISE | In the opposite direction to the rotation of the hands of a clock (13) |
| LOUGEHRIG | He proclaimed himself to fans "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" on July 4, 1939 |
| FRESNEL | Augustin-jean _, French physicist after whom a type of lens and a unit of frequency were named (7) |
| CURIE | Marie ___, French physicist (5) |
| HOUR | Unit of time corresponding to a 15-degree rotation of the Earth about its axis (4) |
| GRAVITY | It is the force of attraction that is exerted by the earth on all the bodies lying on its surface (7) |
| IMARI | The style of porcelain exported from the Japanese port of Kyushu and reaching Europe by means of the |
| TOP | Small toy designed to be spun on its axis; or, cream forming the upper layer of a bottle of milk (3) |
| AMPERES | SI units of electric current named after a French physicist who was one of the founders of electrody |
| DRIVING | The act of steering or directing a car, four-in-hand, golf guttie or tally-ho; or, of the rain, vigorously sweeping by means of the blowing wind (7) |
| SAIL | Structure used to propel a boat by means of the wind; or, a panel forming part of the vane of a windmill (4) |
| HADRON | A member of the class of elementary particles that interact by means of the strong force (6) |
| WHALE | A cetacean able to echolocate under water by means of the mass of specialised adipose tissue, or "melon", on its forehead (5) |
| ROTATOR | Type of muscle that turns a part of the body on its axis (7) |
