| EADIE | Thomas W. ___ Medal (an award of the Royal Society of Canada) |
| 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) |
| SHERLOCK | In 2002, The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an honorary fellowship to which fictitious English sleuth? (8,6) |
| HOLMES | In 2002, The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded an honorary fellowship to which fictitious English sleuth? (8,6) |
| NCAA | Org. with an Inspiration Award and an Award of Valor |
| OSCAR | An Award of Merit, familiarly |
| ASAGRAY | Name on the highest award of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists |
| HONOUR | Award of the British Empire? |
| MOH | Highest military award of the US |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| ORRERY | Clockwork model of the solar system named after the title of Fellow of the Royal Society Charles Boer (6) |
| BRIMSTONEHEAD | Location on Newfoundland's Fogo Island which The Flat Earth Society of Canada believes is one of the four corners of the 'flat' Earth: 2 wds. |
| 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) |
| ASTON | Fellow of the Royal Society whose identification of 212 isotopes by means of his mass spectrograph earned him a Nobel Prize (5) |
| SHEARS | On the quiet, each of the Royal Society heads cuts fleece |
| COPLEY | ____ Medal, annual scientific award given by the Royal Society for outstanding research in science (6) |
| 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) |
| BANKS | Joseph ?, British explorer and naturalist elected president of the Royal Society in 1778 (5) |
| FRS | Fellow of the Royal Society (1,1,1) |
| NULLIUS | Take nobody's word for it - ____ in verba (motto of the Royal Society) |
