| COMERS | All of them turn up at the Royal Society! (6) |
| ETAL | The rest of them turn up late (2,2) |
| LEERS | Looks lecherously at fish? It's up to the Royal Society! (5) |
| STARKERS | Naked streak upset Royal Society! (8) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| NATURE | Did one turn up, at the end, with the right temperament (6) |
| UNTRUE | To turn up at the EU can be false (6) |
| ORRERY | Clockwork model of the solar system named after the title of Fellow of the Royal Society Charles Boer (6) |
| EVENTS | Steven turns up at the happenings (6) |
| NEWTON | Scientist whose magnum opus Principia was published by the Royal Society with the help of Edmond Halley in 1687 and remains one of the world's most influential works (6) |
| ROAMER | One of the travelling people, or all of them, say (6) |
| ORCHID | Flower turns up at the rich do |
| EVELYN | Diarist and founding fellow of the Royal Society who, on December 25 in 1657, found himself arrested at gunpoint and detained as a prisoner for attending church during the Puritan ban on Christmas (6) |
| FELLOW | A confrere of a learned association such as the Royal Society; a chap; one's compeer; or, one of a pair (6) |
| WILSON | Food writer and MasterChef semi-finalist "Bee" whose father is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an award-winning biographer (6) |
| SHEARS | On the quiet, each of the Royal Society heads cuts fleece |
| BOTTAS | Finnish driver who has won nine F1 races, all of them with Mercedes (6) |
| IMPAIR | Reduce time span, girl to expose all of them (6) |
| HOLMES | In 2002, The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an honorary fellowship to which fictitious English sleuth? (8,6) |
| ALBERT | Odd deal with the Royal Society providing growth items (6) |
