| COSMOLOGIST | Student of the origins of the universe (11) |
| ETYMOLOGIST | Student of the origins of words (11) |
| HOYLE | English astronomer who rejected the "Big Bang" theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001 (5) |
| GAMOW | Who (George ___), with Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe, developed the "big bang" theory of the origin of the universe? (5) |
| BIGBANGTHEORY | Hypothesis of the origin of the universe (3,4,6) |
| CREATIONIST | Believer of a divine origin of the universe (11) |
| DARWINIAN | Relating to the theory of the origin of the species (9) |
| 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 |
| BIRTHPLACE | The only place for new deliveries of The Origin of the Species (10) |
| 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). |
| CLOGS | Dancing in what type of shoes was one of the origins of tap dancing? (5) |
| GREECE | Home to the poet Sappho and the island Lesbos, the origins of the words "sapphic" and "lesbian" |
| ETYMOLOGY | Study of the origins of words (9) |
| ARENDT | Hannah ___, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) (6) |
| ETYMO | ___logy, study of the origins of words (5) |
| DARWINITE | Advocate of the theory of the origin of species (alt. sp.); Wide train (anag.) (9) |
| ARTHISTORIAN | Knows the origins of the great wave off Kanagawa being an expert on The Liffey Swim (3,9) |
| ANTHROPOLOGIST | Scientist studying the origins of the human race (14) |
| RESOURCES | About the origins of the money |
| ACORNS | Nuts for the origins of The Oaks (6) |