| WREN | Sir Christopher -; polymath who co-founded the Royal Society (4) |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme who co-founded the Royal British Legion (4) |
| THOMPSON | Physicist Count von Rumford who co-founded the Royal Institution (8) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm - - -, actor and theatre manager who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 (4) |
| HALL | Actress whose father founded the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 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) |
| ALSO | ... as well as a group from the Royal Society (4) |
| RSPB | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (1,1,1,1) |
| RSLS | The Royal Society loses out on diggers' clubs |
| 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) |
| BEECHAM | Conductor who co-founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Malcolm Sargent and founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (7) |
| HOOKE | English polymath who formulated the law of elasticity, developed the balance spring, built the first Gregorian telescope and coined the word "cell"(5) |
| GRESHAM | Sir Thomas ?, 16th-century financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London (7) |
| PETERHALL | British theatre director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 (5,4) |
| AVICENNA | Name by which the Persian polymath who wrote The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine is known (8) |
| REBECCA | Actress whose father founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (7,4) |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, Irish-born British choreographer who founded the Royal Ballet (7) |
| SOCIETY | Royal -; founded by Robert Boyle, Sir Christopher Wren and others and granted a royal charter by Charles II, the UK's national science academy (7) |
| 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) |
