| BEAUFORT | Sir Francis, British admiral who devised a scale of wind velocities (8) |
| HORATIONELSON | British admiral who was the hero of the battle of Trafalgar (7,6) |
| NELSON | Horatio British admiral who was killed aboard HMS Victory (6) |
| SCOVILLE | Pharmacist who devised a scale based on the measurement of the pungency or spiciness of chillies (8) |
| LIGHTAIR | Wind registering number 1 on the Beaufort scale of wind force (5,3) |
| JELLICOE | John, admiral who commanded British naval forces at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 (8) |
| BESSEMER | English engineer who devised a method of producing steel from molten pig iron (8) |
| HOWITZER | A short-barrelled piece of artillery designed for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities (8) |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher, Genoese navigator and admiral who landed in the Americas in 1492 (8) |
| YAMAMOTO | Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (8) |
| BEAUFORTSCALE | In meteorology, a measure of wind velocities on objects on land or at sea (8,5) |
| ENERGIES | Velocities |
| HEADWAYS | Velocities |
| FARRAGUT | Admiral who captured New Orleans in 1862 |
| CRICK | Francis ---, British scientist who identified the molecular structure of DNA with James Watson in 1953 (5) |
| CHICHESTER | Francis -, British yachtsman who sailed round the world in Gipsy Moth IV (10) |
| ALANTURING | British mathematician and computer scientist, 1912-1954, who devised a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate human-like intelligence (4,6) |
| PYM | Francis -, British Foreign Secretary from 1982-83 (3) |
| FAHRENHEIT | Scientific instrument maker and physicist who devised a temperature scale to go with his invention of the mercury-in-glass thermometer (10) |
| GALLUP | George, U.S. statistician who devised a type of opinion poll (6) |
