| ARACHNOLOGISTS | People who study the class of spiders, scorpions and the like (14) |
| ARACHNID | Member of the large class of animals that includes spiders, scorpions and mites |
| CHELA | Pincer-like prehensile claw, as of arthropods such as the scorpion and the crab (5) |
| ASTROLOGERS | People who study the motions and relative positions of the planets, sun and moon, interpreted in terms of human activity (11) |
| BOTANISTS | People who study the classification, structure, physiology, ecology and economic importance of plants (9) |
| THEOLOGIANS | People who study the nature of God, religion and religious beliefs (11) |
| ASTRONOMERS | People who study the stars and planets (11) |
| GEOLOGISTS | Scientists who study the structure and substance of the Earth (10) |
| ARACHNIDA | A class of arthropods that includes scorpions and spiders |
| HADRON | Member of the class of elementary particles that interact by means of the strong force (6) |
| LINGUISTS | Specialists who study the nature of language and communication (9) |
| EPIDEMIOLOGISTS | Those who study the distribution, effects and causes of diseases in populations (15) |
| PATHOLOGISTS | Those who study the causes and effects of diseases (12) |
| SOUTH | The 6 most common scorpions found in ___ Africa are thick-tails, lesser thick-tails, pygmy thick-tails , burrowing scorpions and rock scorpions |
| KULAK | Member of the class of peasants in Russia after 1906 who became proprietors of their own farms (5) |
| AVES | Pluralisation of the Latin word for "bird" that is the class of the aforementioned vertebrate, from Abbott's babbler to zebra finch (4) |
| ECOLOGISTS | Scientists such as Rachel Carson and Charles Elton who study the interdependence between living things and their environment |
| DUNCE | Slowest of the class of crustaceans to have head buried in the sand (5) |
| EPIFAUNA | The class of animals that inhabit submerged ground and river and seabeds |
| CASTE | The class of a group of actors from the east (5) |
