| ZEISS | German optician who opened a lens workshop in Jena in 1846 that developed into a company specialisin |
| ALIEN | With the main xenomorph creature designed by H. R. Giger, a 1979 Ridley Scott film with Sigourney Weaver that developed into a media franchise (5) |
| INVEST | Put money into a company (6) |
| HIRES | Brings into a company |
| CARL | and 7dn, German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846 |
| IRONMAN | Triathlon that originated in Kona in 1978 and developed into a worldseries event and global brand that sold for $650 million in 2015 (7) |
| CONTACTLENSES | Optical aids first made in 1888 by a German optician (7,6) |
| PATTON | Celebrated US general George S. ___, who opened a British Welcome Club for American soldiers stationed in Knutsford in 1944 (6) |
| PANDORA | In Greek mythology, the first woman who opened a box and released all the ills that beset humanity (7) |
| HORNIMAN | Frederick ?, tea merchant who opened a free museum bearing his name in London in 1901 |
| ERICSSON | Lars Magnus ___, 19th-century Swedish inventor and founder of a telephone company that later developed into a multinational corporation (8) |
| MAFIA | International secret organisation founded in Sicily that developed into an organised crime syndicate (5) |
| ALABAMAN | A workshop in the morning with a North American |
| GOLDENEAGLE | Au pairs in Jena beat ugly English bird |
| WOOLWORTH | Frank Winfield --, US businessman who opened a chain of shops selling low-priced goods (9) |
| TWOFOLD | First signs of this workshop in the past getting to double in number? (7) |
| BATHSTONE | Bones that developed into building material (4,5) |
| RECREATION | Hobby that developed into career (10) |
| CAPEDUTCH | Language that developed into Afrikaans (4,5) |
| DIAZ | Navigator who opened a sea route to India |
