| FIBONACCI | Mathematician giving name to a series |
| RIEMANN | German mathematician giving his name to a form of geometry |
| CARIB | Native and language giving name to a sea |
| MERCATOR | Flemish mapmaker, giving name to a projection |
| MUNCHHAUSEN | Fictional baron giving name to a mental disorder |
| ECCLES | Town near Manchester giving name to a cake |
| RANKINE | Scottish scientist giving name to a temperature scale |
| SARGASSO | Seaweed giving name to a sea |
| AVOGADRO | Italian physicist giving name to a constant |
| MALLARDS | Ducks, one giving name to a record-breaking train! (8) |
| PLANCK | German physicist giving name to a constant |
| EALING | Which London suburb gave its name to a series of comedy films made there in the 40s and 50s? (6) |
| BAEDEKER | Karl ---, 19th Century German publisher who gave his name to a series of travel guidebooks (8) |
| BRADSHAW | George ___ (1800-53), printer who gave his name to a series of railway guides (8) |
| ROSES | Which flowers gave their name to a series of 15th-century English civil conflicts? (5) |
| ZORRO | Spanish for 'fox' giving name to a fictional aristocratic outlaw of old California (5) |
| EPONYMOUS | Giving name to a couple of animals, last going first (9) |
| MUNCHAUSEN | Baron -, hero of book of improbable tales giving name to a syndrome |
| LANE | Moat approach giving name to a WR 89D sub-shed (4) |
| ARCADE | This word refers to a gallery or building that is arched or to a series of arches. Strictly speaking, it came to English from Italian by way of French; the Italian, in turn, came from the Latin arcus. |
