| OMAR | And 9 Down. Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer (c. 1048-1131) whose Rubaiyat (quatrains) were translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859 (4,7) |
| KHAYYAM | Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer (c. 1048-1131) whose Rubaiyat (quatrains) were translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859 (4,7) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian author (c. 1048-1131) of the poems known as the Rubaiyat ('quatrains'), first translated into English in 1859 (4,7) |
| KAFKA | Franz -; novelist whose books including Das Schloss and Die Verwandlung were translated by Edwin and Willa Muir (5) |
| FAREWELLS | Parting expressions were translated during trips (9) |
| LAPLACE | French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827). |
| SOMERVILLE | Mary -- (nee Fairfax), 1780-1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (10) |
| GALILEO | Italian mathematician and astronomer who perfected the refracting telescope (7) |
| PTOLEMY | Greek mathematician and astronomer (7) |
| ISAAC | ___ Newton English mathematician and astronomer |
| GAUSS | Renowned 19th-century German mathematician and astronomer |
| ARYA | Pioneering mathematician and astronomer ____bhata |
| COPERNICUS | Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543) |
| ERATOSTHENES | Greek mathematician and astronomer who calculated the circumference of the earth by observing the angle of the sun's rays (12) |
| DAMASUS | Papal name of the 37th (366-384) and 151st Popes (1048) (7) |
| TINTERN | Cistercian abbey founded in 1131 on the Welsh bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire (7) |
| NOSTRADAMUS | French physician and astrologer who produced two collections of predictions in rhymed quatrains |
| SONNET | A number of numbers written up, three quatrains and a couplet? (6) |
| RUBAIYATOFOMARKHAYYAM | 1859 translation of 12th-century Persian quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald |
| EUCALYPT | An anthology of Persian quatrains of a type made famous in English by Edward FitzGerald (8) |
