| ROGET | Physician, philologist and fellow of the Royal Society who compiled a thesaurus published in 1852, since used by writers, monologophobics and later crossword solvers (5) |
| EVELYN | Diarist and founding fellow of the Royal Society who, on December 25 in 1657, found himself arrested at gunpoint and detained as a prisoner for attending church during the Puritan ban on Christmas (6) |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| ORRERY | Clockwork model of the solar system named after the title of Fellow of the Royal Society Charles Boer (6) |
| WILSON | Food writer and MasterChef semi-finalist "Bee" whose father is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an award-winning biographer (6) |
| TOLKIEN | Surname of the philologist and novelist whose works include The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings (7) |
| ASTON | Fellow of the Royal Society whose identification of 212 isotopes by means of his mass spectrograph earned him a Nobel Prize (5) |
| JOHNEVELYN | English gardener and diarist who was a founding Fellow of the UK's Royal Society (4,6) |
| MESSIER | French astronomer who compiled a catalogue of 110 astronomical objects that he observed through a sm |
| SWEET | The English Language: George Bernard Shaw said there were touches of the philologist and phonetician Henry ____ in Pygmalion |
| FRS | Fellow of the Royal Society (1,1,1) |
| GRIMM | Philologist and folklorist brothers who collected fairy tales including Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and Rapunzel (5) |
| ONIONS | Lexicographer, philologist and fourth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary who shares his surname with shallot-like alliaceous bulbs (6) |
| BENEDICT | Monk who compiled a set of rules for monastic orders |
| CLUBSANDWITCH | Member of the World Sorceress Society who flew in from the Gobi? |
| ELLIS | Philologist who was an inspiration for Pygmalion's professor and identified several English dialects, including Cumbrian, Pitmatic and that of the Smoggies; or, an author who explored yuppie nihilism |
| LAROUSSE | French lexicographer who edited and co-compiled a 15-volume dictionary and founded a publishing house noted for a tome on gastronomy (8) |
| DAVY | Self-taught Cornish chemist who discovered several elements, invented a safety lamp for miners and served as president of the Royal Society from 1820-27 (4) |
| BANKS | Joseph ?, British explorer and naturalist elected president of the Royal Society in 1778 (5) |
| NULLIUS | Take nobody's word for it - ____ in verba (motto of the Royal Society) |
