| GILLETTE | American businessman who invented a best-selling version of the safety razor (8) |
| EDISON | American businessman who invented early versions of the electric light bulb, Thomas _ (6) |
| IMAGINATION | Popular song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke whose two best-selling versions were recorded by the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey in 1940 |
| HORNBY | Frank, English businessman who invented the Meccano model construction system in 1898 (6) |
| STEINWAY | Henry E _ German-American businessman who founded a piano company (8) |
| KINGCAMP | Businessman who patented a safety razor (4,4,8) |
| TAMPABAY | Longtime home of the Safety Harbor culture (2 wds.) |
| AGITATES | Troubles of computing stopping American businessman (8) |
| DOUGLASS | *I am a runaway slave, an abolitionist, and a best-selling author |
| SPYSTORY | A best-selling 1974 novel by Len Deighton |
| BANISTER | Is joking about the safety device (8) |
| THREATEN | Menace the safety of |
| SEARS | Richard Warren ---, American businessman who co-founded a famous chain of department stores (5) |
| CONRAD | ____ Hilton, American businessman who founded the hotel chain of that name (6) |
| ILEDUDIABLE | Which of the Safety Islands off the coast of French Guiana was a former French penal colony and is k |
| ARTHURTAPPAN | American businessman who co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and served as its first president |
| HILTON | Conrad Nicholson ___, American businessman who bought the 40-room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919 |
| FIRESTONE | American businessman who founded a tyre and rubber company in 1900 (9) |
| OTIS | Elisha Graves, American inventor of the safety elevator (4) |
| SANDERS | Colonel Harland _, American businessman who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (7) |
