| ROBOTS | Word coined by Czech playwright Karel Capek for mechanical humanoids (6) |
| ROBOT | Which word meaning "fictional humanoid" was coined by Czech writer Karel ?apek? (5) |
| BLURBS | Word coined by humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907, for promotional descriptions of books (6) |
| SIMTEX | Malleable odourless plastic explosive developed by Czech chemists including Stanislav Brebera in the 1950s (6) |
| BOOJUM | Imaginary dangerous animal, nonsense word coined by Lewis Carroll (6) |
| TORQUE | Right quote for mechanical term? (6) |
| GASKET | Bypass request for mechanical seal (6) |
| YAHOOS | Brutish filthy humanoids embodying base instincts in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels who serve as the very antithesis of the Houyhnhnms, the rational equine rulers of their land (6) |
| GNOMES | *Mythological underground humanoids |
| CAPEK | Czech playwright who coined the word "robot" |
| KAREL | Czech playwright AÂŒapek who coined the term "robot" |
| MEME | Word coined by Richard Dawkins for an idea or behaviour passed from one individual to another by non genetic means such as imitation (4) |
| CYCLONE | Word, coined by a sea captain and thought to derive from the Greek for "wheel, coil of a snake", for a system of winds spiralling inwards (7) |
| BOSH | Welsh dialect for a kitchen sink or a washbasin; or, from "worthless, empty", a word, coined by J J Morier, for foolish talk or absurd nonsense (4) |
| SERENDIPITY | Word, coined by Horace Walpole, for the faculty of making fortunate or happy discoveries by accident (11) |
| RUR | Karel Capek play that coined the word "robot" |
| CELLS | Word coined by Robert Hooke for the smallest, most basic units of life (5) |
| CELL | Word coined by Robert Hooke in 1665 for a basic unit of life (4) |
| IONS | Word coined by scientist Michael Faraday for charged atoms or molecules (4) |
| RUNCIBLE | Word coined by Edward Lear for a fork-like spoon with a cutting edge |
