| PAULI | United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958). |
| FRISCH | British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission. |
| FRANCK | James --, 1882-1964, US physicist born in Germany (6) |
| EINSTEIN | US physicist born in Germany (8) |
| RUDIMENTS | First principles, thus basic flams and rolls forming the building blocks of more complex drumming patterns (9) |
| WOLFGANGPAULI | 1945 winner who discovered the exclusion principle |
| GELLMANN | Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proposed the concept of strangeness in quarks and contributed towards the classification of elementary particles (4-4) |
| OORT | Astronomer who proposed the existence of a cloud of frozen comet nuclei beyond the Kuiper Belt (4) |
| PETERHIGGS | Former professor at the University of Edinburgh, who proposed the existence of a 'God particle' (5,5) |
| CHARLESDARWIN | Who proposed the theory of natural selection in his book On the Origin of Species (1859)? (7,6) (13) |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | Archduchess of Austria who became Queen of France in 1774, executed in 1793 during the French Revolution (5,10) |
| ZINNEMANN | Which law graduate was born in Austria and directed the films High Noon (1952) and The Day of the Ja |
| LEE | US acting coach (1901-1982) born in Austria-Hungary, considered to be the originator of 'The Method' (3) |
| STRASBERG | US acting coach (1901-1982) born in Austria-Hungary, considered to be the originator of 'The Method' (9) |
| WHIPPLE | Fred ___, U.S. astronomer who proposed the 'dirty snowball' theory of comets (7) |
| ARCHDUKE | Title of Luis Salvador of Austria who is revered as a champion of Mallorca's wildlife for his conservation activities on the island during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (8) |
| FEDERALEXPRESS | Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C |
| CHAMBERLAIN | Owen ___, US physicist who discovered the antiproton with E. G. Segre in 1955, and with him shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics (11) |
| SPENCER | Percy ___, US physicist who patented the microwave oven (eventually called the Radarange) in 1945 (7) |
| ENRICOFERMI | Italian-born US physicist who directed the first controlled nuclear reaction in 1942; Nobel Prize for Physics (1938) |