| ARTHURTAPPAN | American businessman who co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and served as its first president |
| SEARS | Richard Warren ---, American businessman who co-founded a famous chain of department stores (5) |
| PETA | American anti-fur org. |
| HAVEL | Dramatist who wrote the 1963 play The Garden Party and served as the first President of the Czech Republic (5) |
| HYATT | ____ von Dehn, U.S. businessman who co-founded a hotel chain in the 1950s (5) |
| MARKS | Michael ---, businessman who co-founded a retail chain with Thomas Spencer in the late 19th Century (5) |
| HILTON | Conrad Nicholson ___, American businessman who bought the 40-room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919 |
| FIRESTONE | Harvey ___, American businessman who founded an eponymous 'Tire and Rubber' company in 1900 |
| COSSACK | Any of the free warriorpeasants of chiefly east Slavonic descent who lived in communes and served as cavalry under the tsars (7) |
| EZRACORNELL | US businessman who co-founded the eponymous Ivy League university |
| CONRAD | ____ Hilton, American businessman who founded the hotel chain of that name (6) |
| EDISON | American businessman who invented early versions of the electric light bulb, Thomas _ (6) |
| GILLETTE | American businessman who invented a best-selling version of the safety razor (8) |
| WEST | Benjamin -; a founder of the Royal Academy who served as its second president (4) |
| DAVY | Self-taught Cornish chemist who discovered several elements, invented a safety lamp for miners and served as president of the Royal Society from 1820-27 (4) |
| MANDELA | He helped end apartheid in South Africa and served as the country's first Black president |
| GROHL | Surname of the musician who founded the American rock band Foo Fighters (5) |
| SANDERS | Colonel Harland _, American businessman who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (7) |
| STEINWAY | Henry E _ German-American businessman who founded a piano company (8) |
| PITT | Friend of anti-slavery campaigner and RSPCA co-founder William Wilberforce who engaged in a duel with George Tierney and became Britain's youngest prime minister (4) |
