| AUTODIDACT | Self-taught person |
| SOMERVILLE | Celebrated in a Google Doodle this year, mathematical genius who self taught from Euclid's Elements of Geometry and later translated Pierre Laplace's Celestial Mechanics (10) |
| AUTODIDACTIC | Self-taught (12) |
| TERRORIST | Self-taught bomb expert, maybe |
| JAILHOUSELAWYER | Certain self-taught prison inmate |
| AUTODIDACTS | Self-taught group |
| BLANC | Self-taught Michelin-starred chef, Raymond _ (5) |
| GEORGEBOOLE | Largely self-taught English mathematician whose "Laws of Thought" was a pioneering work in modern symbolic logic |
| COLE | Self-taught Lancashire-born artist who painted The Oxbow, The Course of Empire: Consummation, The Titan's Goblet and The Voyage of Life series (4) |
| UNTUTORED | After reforming, turn out educated or self-taught? (9) |
| HENRI | ___ Rousseau French painter of The Sleeping Gypsy who was a self-taught painter |
| TENSE | Some of them are often self taught, it's said (5) |
| OUTSIDERARTISTS | Self-taught creators, in modern lingo, and a hint to each set of circles |
| DAVY | Self-taught Cornish chemist who discovered several elements, invented a safety lamp for miners and served as president of the Royal Society from 1820-27 (4) |
| RAMANUJAN | Largely self-taught Indian mathematician known for his work with GH Hardy |
| SATCHELPAIGE | Self-taught baseball great (who had secretly planned to get...) |
| PATRICKHOCKEY | Which self-taught landscape painter is represented in most major Australian collections and his work includes Man and Woman at a Cattle Sale (1976) |
| HEAVISIDE | Oliver ___, self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits |
| DAISYMAYBATES | Arriving in Australia in 1883, which Irish born, self-taught anthropologist lived with and studied Indigenous Australians, to whom she was known as Kabbarli or Grandmother? (5,3,5) |
| PYTHAGORAS | He taught others to say "Graph" properly (10) |
