| LAPLACE | Pierre-Simon , French scholar and scientist born in 1749 (7) |
| STUDENT | Inhibit moving in of French scholar (7) |
| ABELARD | French scholar famed for his ill-fated romance with Héloïse |
| RANKINE | William, 19c Scottish engineer and scientist who worked in the field of thermodynamics (7) |
| WINSTON | Lord Robert -; professor and scientist who presented The Human Body and Child of Our Time (7) |
| BORODIN | Aleksandr --, 1833-87, Russian composer and scientist (7) |
| ADDISON | Renowned 19th-century English physician and scientist Thomas (7) |
| EHRLICH | Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist, Paul _ (7) |
| GALILEO | Italian mathematician and scientist who perfected the refracting telescope (7) |
| WESTERN | see 17ac, Heroine of 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (6,7) |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, Renaissance artist and scientist who drew Vitruvian Man (2,5) |
| SAGAN | Carl ***** , astronomer and planetary scientist born in 1934 (5) |
| OMAN | Oldest independent state in the Arab world, dating from the expulsion of the Persians in 1749 (4) |
| ANCHOR | Symbol first used on Chelsea porcelain in 1749 (6) |
| HOOKE | Robert ___, English scientist born in 1635 who built the first Gregorian telescope (5) |
| DALTON | John -, English scientist born in 1766 noted for his research into colour blindness (6) |
| STAHL | Georg Ernst ?, German scientist born in 1659 who developed the phlogiston theory of combustion |
| BOGDANOR | Vernon ******** , British political scientist born in 1943 (8) |
| BLIFIL | Nephew of Squire Allworthy in 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (6) |
| KEPLER | Johannes ?, German scientist born in 1571 regarded as one of the fathers of modern astronomy |
