| ABELSON | Philip, US chemist who created, with Edwin McMillan, the element neptunium (7) |
| DMITRIMENDELEEV | Russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements (6,9) |
| SEABORG | Which US chemist shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the physicist Edwin McMillan for their discovery of transuranic elements such as plutonium? (7) |
| CHARLES | US chemist and engineer who invented vulcanised rubber, patented in 1844 (7) |
| WIDGEON | Go with Edwin round for the bird (7) |
| REACHED | Came to part of river with Edwin (7) |
| THEVERB | BBC Radio programme described as a "cabaret of the word", hosted by poet Ian McMillan (3,4) |
| LINUSCARLPAULING | US chemist who became the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes (5,4,7) |
| UREY | Harold Clayton ___, US chemist who discovered deuterium in 1932; Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1934) |
| LIBBY | United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980). |
| SOUSA | John Philip -, US composer of the march The Stars and Stripes Forever (5) |
| GLASS | Philip, US composer of the opera Akhnaten (5) |
| NYLON | Synthetic polyamide fibre developed by US chemist Wallace Carothers in the 1930s (5) |
| GOODYEAR | US chemist and engineer who invented vulcanised rubber, patented in 1844 (8) |
| JEKYLL | With a fragrant pink David Austin old rose named after her, a horticulturist who lived at Hestercombe House and collaborated with Edwin Lutyens (6) |
| TAXIED | Travelled at the airport by cab with Edwin (6) |
| COHN | US chemist Edwin Joseph ___ |
| DRUGGIST | US chemist rotated screen, extracting middle substance (8) |
| ASPARTAME | Artificial sweetener, approximately 200 times sweeter than sugar, discovered by US chemist James M. Schlatter in 1965 (9) |
| TRILLIAN | Name adopted by Tricia McMillan in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (8) |
