Naturalist Charles with a theory of evolution Crossword Clue

Last seen in: The Washington Post · 2026-10-06

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(noun)

  1. provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia
  2. English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

(noun)

  1. a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
  2. king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
  3. French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
  4. the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
  5. son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
  6. King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
  7. as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
  8. King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
  9. King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

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    Naturalist Charles with a theory of evolution (6)

    The Washington Post · Oct 6, 2026

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