| STEPHENHAWKING | Theoretical physicist who received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 2006 (7,7) |
| FEYNMAN | Richard ___, American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 |
| ALSO | ... as well as a group from the Royal Society (4) |
| NIELSBOHR | Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 (5,4) |
| WIGWAM | Home for brave soldier returning to wife with a medal from the front |
| AMBUSCADE | Suddenly surprise American baddie opening a medal from the palace |
| OBEYED | Medal from the Queen you had once kept |
| SILVA | From the Latin meaning "wood", the assemblage of trees in a given area; or, the truncated title of John Evelyn's forestry discourse presented to the Royal Society in 1662 (5) |
| SYLVA | From the Latin meaning "wood", the assemblage of trees in a given area; or, the truncated title of John Evelyn's forestry discourse presented to the Royal Society in 1662 (5) |
| EVELYN | Diarist and author of Sylva who was a founding member of the Royal Society in 1660 (6) |
| BANKS | Joseph ?, British explorer and naturalist elected president of the Royal Society in 1778 (5) |
| DITHERS | Everyman, ultimately terrified, rises before the Royal Society in quaking fits (7) |
| ROBES | It's an honour to enter the Royal Society in such garments |
| JOHNWOODEN | Basketball coach called the Wizard of Westwood, who received the Medal from President George W. Bush |
| UMESH | Indian pacer who moved from the Royal Challengers Bangalore to Delhi in the 2021 IPL (first name only) |
| BOHR | Niels ___, Danish theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 (4) |
| NUNNERY | Poles in place of Royal Society in place of plants in place of sisters (7) |
| DIRAC | Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist who described the properties of the electron and predicted |
| HAWKING | British physicist who received a U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| MARION | Jones, female American sprinter stripped of her three gold medals from the 2000 Olympics (6) |
