| POSITRON | Particle discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932 |
| ANDERSON | Carl David --, American physicist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics (8) |
| INTHEWET | Nevil Shute novel featuring the character David Anderson (2,3,3) |
| CHLORINE | Chemical element discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 but named by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810 (8) |
| OXYGEN | One of the elements discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (6) |
| NEUTRON | Uncharged subatomic particle discovered by English physicist James Chadwick in 1932 (7) |
| ELECTRON | Subatomic particle discovered by JJ Thomson in 1897 (8) |
| HIGGSBOSON | Particle discovered by child - gosh, big surprise (5,5) |
| ELECTRONS | Subatomic particles discovered by JJ Thomson (9) |
| NUCLEON | Particle discovered in London college in gas |
| BOSON | Higgs ___ (elementary particle discovered in 2012) |
| ANTIPROTON | Particle discovered in 1955 |
| WIPERS | Road safety invention patented by Mary Anderson in 1905 |
| SCULLY | FBI agent played by Gillian Anderson in The X-Files, Dana ... (6) |
| DANA | FBI agent played by Gillian Anderson in TheX-Files, ... Scully (4) |
| DANASCULLY | Character played by Gillian Anderson in The X-Files (4,6) |
| ELEANOR | President Roosevelt's wife played by Gillian Anderson in The First Lady |
| LONI | Anderson in "WKRP in Cincinnati" |
| ANGUS | Given name of the character played by Richard Dean Anderson in the MacGyver TV series |
| THATCHER | Artisan who makes roofs from long straw, wheat straw or water reed; or, the prime minister to be portrayed by Gillian Anderson in series four of The Crown (8) |
