| GEORGES | & 17 Down French naturalist and zoologist (1769-1832) (7) |
| CUVIER | French naturalist and zoologist (1769-1832) |
| DURRELL | Naturalist and zoologist who penned The Bafut Beagles, My Family and Other Animals, Menagerie Manor and The Aye-Aye and I (7) |
| BUFFON | French naturalist and palaeontologist founder who produced the 36-volume quarto volumes Histoire Nat |
| REAUMUR | Temperature scale founded in 1730 and named after a French naturalist (7) |
| LAMARCK | Jean-Baptiste ___ 1744-1829, French naturalist who worked in the field of evolution (7) |
| ERODING | Wearing down French sculptor, say, all round |
| AUDUBON | John James, US naturalist and artist noted for his paintings of birds (7) |
| ADAMSON | Joy, naturalist and author of Born Free (7) |
| NUTKINS | Terry ___, well known British naturalist and broadcaster (7) |
| DEBRETT | Bookseller who wrote the 1769 "who's who" of aristocratic titles The Peerage and Baronetage; his name is synonymous with British etiquette (7) |
| PONTIAC | Chief of the Ottawa Indians, died 1769 (7) |
| CORSICA | Island on which Napoleon was born in 1769 (7) |
| AJACCIO | Corsican city in which Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 (7) |
| ETRURIA | Factory set up by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 (7) |
| GEORGIA | Which US state was named after the British king, 1683-1769? (7) |
| RICHARD | British cotton manufacturer who patented the spinning frame in 1769 (7) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. naturalist and essayist noted for his book Walden on simple living (7) |
| HUMBOLDT | German naturalist and explorer 1769-1859 (8) |
| EDOUARD | And 18 Down French painter whose works include 1862's Music in the Tuileries (7,5) |
