| LOVELACE | Ada -; daughter of Lord Byron, associate of Charles Babbage (8) |
| ADA | Mathematician and colleague of Charles Babbage (3,8) |
| COMPUTER | Machine with an early form invented by Charles Babbage with Ada Lovelace (8) |
| INVENTOR | Alexander Graham Bell or Charles Babbage, for example (8) |
| ALLEGRA | Christian name of the illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (7) |
| ADALOVELACE | "The first computer programmer", mathematician daughter of Lord Byron (3,8) |
| POLIDORI | John ___, physician to Lord Byron and author of the novel The Vampyre (8) |
| INSTINCT | "There is no ___ like that of the heart": Lord Byron (8) |
| SENNACHERIB | The Destruction of -, Lord Byron poem |
| LAMB | Lady Caroline ___ (1785- 1828), aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron (4) |
| APPETITE | "I only go out to get me a fresh ___ for being alone": Lord Byron (8) |
| STRANGER | Truth is ... than fiction, according to Lord Byron |
| RAS | Abbreviated name of the UK's learned society dedicated to solar-system science, conceived over dinner by Charles Babbage, Sir John Herschel and others in 1820 (1,1,1) |
| ANALYTICALENGINE | Early general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage |
| SHE | "___ walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that's best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes" (Lord Byron lines) |
| EPITAPH | ___ to a Dog; poem written by Lord Byron in honour of his Newfoundland (7) |
| LOCHNAGAR | Grampian mountain that is the subject of a poem by Lord Byron (9) |
| DONJUAN | A legendary Spanish nobleman, subject of a poem by Lord Byron (3,4) |
| ERE | Maid of Athens ___ we part by Lord Byron |
| EREWE | "Maid of Athens, ___ Part" (Lord Byron poem) |
