| COSMOLOGIST | Scientist who studies the origins of the universe (11) |
| HOYLE | English astronomer who rejected the "Big Bang" theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001 (5) |
| ETYMOLOGIST | One who studies the origins of words and the development of their meanings |
| GEOLOGIST | Scientist who studies the origin, history, structure and composition of the earth (9) |
| CREATIONIST | Believer of a divine origin of the universe (11) |
| AUTOMATISTS | Le Refus Global (Total Refusal): Quebec artists (spelling anglicized here) of the 1940s such as Paul-Emile Borduas whose manifesto on culture is considered the origin of the Quiet Revolution |
| SOCIOLOGIST | Scientist who studies human activity and interaction (11) |
| PATHOLOGIST | A scientist who studies diseases and illnesses (11) |
| 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). |
| BIOLOGIST | Marine - - -, scientist who studies the organisms of the sea (9) |
| ARCHAEOLOGIST | Scientist who studies the remains of ancient cultures (13) |
| GAMOW | Who (George ___), with Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe, developed the "big bang" theory of the origin of the universe? (5) |
| BANG | The big ___, theory of the origin of the universe (4) |
| GREECE | Home to the poet Sappho and the island Lesbos, the origins of the words "sapphic" and "lesbian" |
| ANTHROPOLOGIST | Scientist studying the origins of the human race (14) |
| METEOROLOGIST | A scientist who studies the earth's atmosphere, especially for weather forecasting (13) |
| SELENOLOGIST | Scientist who studies the moon (12) |
| ASTRONOMER | Scientist who studies the stars (10) |
| ECOLOGIST | Scientist who studies the natural environment (9) |
| BIGBANGTHEORY | Hypothesis of the origin of the universe (3,4,6) |
