| JAMESCRICHTON | Scottish polymath known as "the Admirable" |
| ARBUTHNOT | John ---, Scottish polymath, creator of John Bull (9) |
| FRANKLIN | American polymath known for his discovery of the electrical properties of lightning, among other things (surname only) |
| CPSNOW | Polymath known for his 1959 lecture, The Two Cultures (1,1,4) |
| BARRIE | "The Admirable Crichton" playwright |
| CRICHTON | The admirable butler (8) |
| JMBARRIE | The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street dramatist (1,1,6) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| CHARLES | Given name of the polymath considered the father of the computer who invented the difference engine and worked with Ada Lovelace on the later analytical engine (7) |
| AVICENNA | Name by which the Persian polymath who wrote The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine is known (8) |
| HOOKE | English polymath who formulated the law of elasticity, developed the balance spring, built the first Gregorian telescope and coined the word "cell"(5) |
| KINGSLEY | Priestly polymath who was a champion of "muscular Christianity", a chaplain to Queen Victoria and also John Henry Newman's theological foe, but is perhaps best known as the author of The Water-Babies |
| LEONARDODA | Italian polymath of the Renaissance who is the renowned painter of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper ___ Vinci: 2 wds. |
| GUEST | Original married name of the English aristocrat, polyglot, polymath and mother of 10 children, nee Lady Charlotte Bertie, who is best known for her trailblazing translation of the medieval Welsh Mabin |
| LEONARDO | Italian polymath noted for his use of the techniques sfumato and chiaroscuro in paintings including Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Lady with an Ermine (8) |
| VINCI | Leonardo da ___ Italian painter of Mona Lisa who is also known to have been a polymath of the Renaissance |
| GALTON | Polymath cousin of Charles Darwin who coined the alliterative phrase "nature versus nurture" and was the first to show how fingerprints could be used to identify individuals (6) |
| CBFRY | English cricketer and polymath described by John Arlott as "probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age" |
| LAPLACE | French polymath who came close to postulating the concept of the black hole with what he called corps obscur, or "dark body" (7) |
| THOMASYOUNG | Polymath who helped establish the wave theory of light and decipher the Rosetta Stone (6,5) |
