| GROUP | A scientific classification |
| AVES | In scientific classification, a class of vertebrates comprising birds (4) |
| LINNAEUS | Carolus ?, 18th-century Swedish botanist who originated the modern scientific classification of plants and animals |
| GENUS | Scientific classification that falls between family and species |
| TYPE | Particular specimen which fixes a scientific name to a taxon; or, a printing block character/letter (4) |
| TOTALABSTAINER | One pledged to add a scientific location to a Victorian composer (5,9) |
| ALABAMA | A scientific establishment attended by a scholar in state (7) |
| PHRENOLOGY | The shape of a loaf once felt to be a scientific discipline |
| EXPERIMENTATION | The process of performing a scientific procedure, often in a laboratory, to determine something (15) |
| EXPERIMENT | A scientific procedure undertaken e.g. to make a discovery (10) |
| HERSCHEL | George III's private astronomer who discovered Uranus with a home-made telescope and whose fellow stargazer sister, Caroline, was granted a scientific salary for her role as "ladies' comet hunter" by |
| ATOMICNUMBER | A male in charge, having less feeling as a scientific figure |
| COS | Key on a scientific calculator |
| PATENTED | Staked a scientific claim on |
| EXP | Button abbr. on a scientific calculator |
| HOLDTHEFORTRAN | What a scientific computer program might do? |
| ASCI | A scientific name for enlarged cells |
| LAB | Informal term for a scientific workplace (3) |
| BALLISTIC | A scientific study - basic still, unfortunately (10) |
| ASCEND | Go up for a scientific finish |
