| NOAMCHOMSKY | So-named "father of modern linguistics" |
| GALILEO | Italian astronomer named "father of modern physics", _ Galilei (7) |
| CHOMSKY | "The father of modern linguistics" (4,7) |
| NOAM | "The father of modern linguistics" (4,7) |
| CHESTERTON | Author of The Club of Queer Trades as well as the popular tales about a fictional crime-solving innocuous priest named Father Brown (10) |
| RODIN | Celebrated at a current exhibition at the Grand Palais marking the centenary of his death, the founding father of modern sculpture whose works include The Burghers of Calais and The Thinker (5) |
| OSLER | Sir William ___, so-called "Father of Modern Medicine" |
| GALILEI | Surname of "the father of modern physics" |
| ANTOINE | First name of the Father of Modern Chemistry |
| TRUMPETER | - swan; North American species of the water bird with young known as cygnets, so-named because of its sonorous, bugle-like call (9) |
| PANSY | From the French word for "thought", a violet-like flower so named because of its resemblance of a human face (5) |
| UNICORN | Mythical beast depicted on a series of seven tapestries with millefleurs backgrounds; or, a term for a $1billion tech start-up, so-named because of its rarity (7) |
| PUPIL | From the Latin meaning "doll", the black aperture at the centre of an iris, so named from the tiny reflections of oneself when looking into another person's eyes (5) |
| DODO | From the Portuguese meaning "simpleton", a flightless bird hunted to extinction, so named for its apparent lack of fear of human beings (4) |
| COMMA | Species of nymphalid butterfly, so named because of a white area on its wing which resembles a punctuation mark (5) |
| OLDDRAGONSHEAD | Section of the eastern end of this puzzle's landmark, so named for its resemblance to a mythical beast drinking from the sea |
| NENE | Bird so named because of its call |
| ENDERS | Known as the father of modern vaccines, one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (6) |
| IBSEN | Surname of the Norwegian dramatist, generally regarded as the father of modern theatre (5) |
| ITALY | Birth country of the father of modern science Galileo Galilei and his barometer-inventing student Evangelista Torricelli (5) |
