| APPARATUS | Piece of laboratory equipment such as a test tube, pipette or beaker (9) |
| INVITRO | In an artificial environment, such as a test tube (2 words) |
| BULB | From the Greek for "onion", a globular stem of a plant such as the aforesaid or the daffodil; or, an item in this shape, such as the rubber part of a pipette or bicycle horn (4) |
| GLASS | Tumbler or beaker (5) |
| TESTBED | Equipment used for trials of new equipment, such as aircraft engines |
| SENECALAKE | Body of water in New York state used by the US Navy to test equipment such as transducers and sonar arrays and systems |
| MACHINETOOLS | Fixed power-driven equipment such as lathes and grinders (7,5) |
| DROPPERS | Pipettes; or, gun dogs that sink to the ground on sighting game (8) |
| PETRIDISH | Piece of laboratory equipment |
| BELLJAR | See inventor shake a piece of laboratory equipment (4-3) |
| TESTTUBE | Piece of laboratory equipment (4-4) |
| BUNSENBURNER | Essential piece of laboratory equipment. (6,6) |
| PIPETTE | Piece of laboratory equipment (7) |
| TESTTUBES | Laboratory equipment is twice set up without objection being raised (4,5) |
| PETRI | German bacteriologist and inventor of a common item of laboratory equipment |
| KIPP | Dutch chemist/pharmacist who invented an elaborate piece of laboratory glassware for the development of gases, such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen sulphide (4) |
| BURNER | Bunsen ___, item of laboratory equipment (6) |
| OXIDATE | In the box I'd a test tube to create a chemical change (7) |
| ROBERTBUNSEN | German chemist who devised a kind of burner used as laboratory equipment (6,6) |
| BEHEST | Coming from a test-tube he stood to get directive (6) |