| STOPES | Marie, botanist and social worker who founded Britain's first birth control clinic in 1921 (6) |
| MARIESTOPES | The campaigner who opened Britain's first birth control clinic in 1921 (5,6) |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| BARNARDO | Thomas John ___ (1845-1905), British social worker who founded more than 90 homes for destitute children (8) |
| CICELY | ___ Saunders, social worker who helped to found the hospice movement (6) |
| SEARLE | Pfizer subsidiary that developed the first birth control pill |
| PAMELA | ____ Isley, botanist and alter ego of Poison Ivy in a superhero comic book series (6) |
| GERARD | Originally a barber-surgeon, the botanist and superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and compiler of the tome Herball (6) |
| ERRANT | Sinful, eastern bishop and social worker |
| BREECH | Bottom-first birth position |
| REHABS | Clinics, in short |
| JANEADDAMS | Social worker who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize |
| CAREATTENDANT | Region in court with director blocking temporary resident and social worker? (4,9) |
| TOLERANT | Patient to go with First Lady, the queen and social worker (8) |
| DICKSONIA | Genus of tree ferns in the order Cyatheales named after a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist |
| ROOK | Corvus frugilegus, black-feathered bird named in 1758 by Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (4) |
| ANTAGONISMS | Irritates social worker who ponders intensely (11) |
| COVENANT | Witches and social worker in agreement |
| PEDANTIC | Like teacher, editor and social worker featured in illustration (8) |
| TARANTINO | Sailor and social worker, in love, shooting American? (9) |
