| LALANDE | Surname of the French astronomer who, in his Histoire Celeste, catalogued the positions of about 50,000 stars (7) |
| PLACES | Positions of about fifty steps (6) |
| PTOLEMY | See next page - setter's after the French astronomer (7) |
| FAUST | German astronomer who, in legend, sold his soul to the Devil (5) |
| TYCHO | Astronomer who in 1573 discovered serious errors in existing astronomical tables (5,5) |
| BRAHE | Astronomer who in 1573 discovered serious errors in existing astronomical tables (5,5) |
| ASTROLOGY | The study of the positions of the planets, sun and moon interpreted in terms of human characteristics and activities (9) |
| PICARD | Jean, 17th Century French astronomer who measured the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of ac |
| JEANPICARD | 17th-century French astronomer who measured the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy (4,6) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Surname of the French lawyer and agitator influential in bringing about the French Revolution (11) |
| MONTGOLFIER | Surname of the French inventor brothers who built and ascended in the first piloted hot-air balloon (11) |
| GAUGUIN | Surname of the French artist who was with Van Gogh around the time he cutoff his ear (7) |
| ANTLIA | Symbolising an air pump, one of the constellations named after scientific instruments by astronomer Lacaille who also determined the positions of some 10,000 stars (6) |
| CREASE | In cricket, one of the four lines (popping, bowling or return) used to define the positions of the bowler and batsman (6) |
| TRACTION | Sustained pulling of a part of the body to maintain the positions of fractured bones, correct deformity etc. (8) |
| CASSINI | Giovanni Domenico _, Italian-born French astronomer who discovered (1675) the gap between the two brightest rings (7) |
| MOZART | Salzburg-born musician who, in his 35 years of life, composed some 600 works including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute (6) |
| ARTHUR | Forename of a novelist who, in his 1887 work of fiction A Study in Scarlet, created the crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (6) |
| LUMIERE | Surname of the French brothers who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography |
| LAYAMON | Poet who, in his work Brut, was the first to present the legends of King Arthur (7) |
