| HUMPHRYDAVY | English chemist who invented a type of safety lamp and coined the name 'laughing gas' for nitrous oxide (7,4) |
| DAVY | Humphry ---, English inventor of a safety lamp who coined the name 'laughing gas' for nitrous oxide (4) |
| MINE | System of tunnels and excavations for the extraction of coal, diamonds, gold and other ores, for which Sir Humphry Davy invented a type of safety lamp (4) |
| OPART | Pictures for which Time Magazine coined the name in 1964 |
| BAYER | Company that coined the name "aspirin" |
| HOOKE | English polymath who formulated the law of elasticity, developed the balance spring, built the first Gregorian telescope and coined the word "cell"(5) |
| RYLE | English philosopher who wrote The Concept of Mind and coined the phrase "ghost in the machine" (4) |
| PITMAN | Isaac, English educator born in 1813 who invented a type of shorthand system (6) |
| RAWLS | Political philosopher who wrote A Theory of Justice and coined the phrase "veil of ignorance" (5) |
| RUDOLFDIESEL | German engineer who invented a type of engine, which is named after him (6,6) |
| WANKEL | Felix, German engineer who invented a type of four-stroke internal-combustion engine (6) |
| MCADAM | John, Scottish engineer who invented a type of road surface made from small stones bound with tar (6) |
| RUDOLFCLAUSIUS | German physicist who formulated the second law of thermodynamics (1850) and coined the term entropy (6,8) |
| LEBLANC | Nicolas, French chemist who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt (2,5) |
| THOMASEDISON | US inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp and the microphone |
| DIESEL | Rudolf ___, German engineer who invented a type of internal combustion engine (6) |
| GAS | Word, based on "chaos" and coined by Jan Baptista van Helmont, for a fundamental state of matter, such as the carbon dioxide identified by said chemist; or, in another sense, empty boastful talk or bl |
| ALADDIN | In The Arabian Nights, a poor young man who obtains a magic lamp and ring (7) |
| WHEELER | Theoretical physicist who worked with Niels Bohr on explaining nuclear fission and coined the terms |
| GILBERT | Physicist who discovered how to make magnets and coined the new Latin word "electricus" (7) |
