| MAXIM | Hiram-US-born inventor of the first automatic machine gun (5) |
| HIRAM | US-born inventor of the first automatic machine gun (5,5) |
| HIRAMMAXIM | US-born inventor of the first automatic machine gun (5,5) |
| BAIRD | John Logie ---, Scottish engineer and inventor of the first television system (5) |
| BINET | Alfred -; inventor of the first practical IQ test (5) |
| MORSE | Samuel ---, American inventor of the first electric telegraph and a communications code which bears his name (5) |
| DEERE | Inventor of the first commercially successful steel plow |
| JAMES | US-born British novelist who wrote books including The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl (5) |
| RUBIK | Erno ?, Budapest-born inventor of a famous cube puzzle (5) |
| EVANS | Oliver, the inventor of the first high-pressure steam engine |
| EPSOM | Surrey town in which the UK's first automatic telephone exchange was installed in 1912 (5) |
| DYSON | Brand of bagless vacuum cleaner named after the Norfolk-born inventor (5) |
| ROBOT | Automatic machine that redesigns right boot (5) |
| ASTOR | US-born Conservative politician who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1919) (5) |
| HENRY | - James, US-born novelist (The Turn of the Screw) |
| BUICK | David Dunbar ___, Scottish-born inventor and automobile manufacturer who died in 1929 (5) |
| GRANT | Hiram Ulysses ___, former US president (5) |
| GATES | United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955) |
| ELIOT | T.S. ---, US-born British poet and dramatist whose works include The Waste Land (5) |
| POUND | 20th-century US-born poet (surname) who edited Eliot's The Waste Land (5) |
