| TECHNIQUE | Method requiring skill developing the quince (9) |
| BINARYSEARCH | *Location method requiring a sorted list |
| EMAIL | Delivery method requiring a server |
| APPLETART | A course requiring skill with computer program? |
| FISHFARMS | Schools network for developing the bass (4,5) |
| GEOPONICS | Pic goes on developing the art of farming |
| MUNRO | Hector Hugh -; author "Saki" whose collection of short stories Beasts and Super-Beasts includes The Hen, The Quince Tree and The Lumber Room (5) |
| SAKI | Author whose Beasts and Super-Beasts includes Dusk, The Cobweb, The Hen and The Quince Tree (4) |
| SALAMITECHNIQUE | The quince served up after meat, it's a fraud! (6,9) |
| CARR | Author of novels including A Day in Summer and A Month in the Country who published his Dictionary of Extraordinary English Cricketers under his imprint The Quince Tree Press (4) |
| CRAFT | Boats requiring skill (5) |
| ADEPT | Very proficient in something requiring skill (5) |
| ARTIFICE | Device requiring skill if on ice (8) |
| ACROBAT | Athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination. (7) |
| CULPABILITY | Blame learner in competition requiring skill (11) |
| START | A way requiring skill to get moving |
| ATHEART | Articles requiring skill, basically |
| ELIASJAMESCOREY | Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1990 for his work developing the theory of organic synthesis |
| CRISPR | In 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the ______-Cas9 genome editing technique |
| CHARPENTIER | In 2012 this scientist, together with Jennifer Doudna, won the Nobel Prize for developing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique (last name only) |
