| LESPAUL | American jazz guitarist and pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar (3,4) |
| BENSON | George ----, American jazz guitarist and singer (6) |
| FERMI | Pioneer in the development of nuclear power |
| DAIMLER | Gottlieb ___, German engineer and pioneer in the early car industry (7) |
| LES | ___ Paul American jazz guitarist who has a guitar model in his name |
| WESTINGHOUSE | George, U.S. engineer and pioneer in the use of alternating current (12) |
| ENRICO | Italian physicist and pioneer in the nuclear reactor industry, ... Fermi |
| CORELLI | Italian Baroque composer whose music was the key to the development of the sonata and concerto |
| FRESNEL | Augustin-Jean ___, physicist and pioneer in optics born in 1788 |
| METHENY | Pat, U.S. jazz guitarist and composer born in 1954 (7) |
| PAUL | Les, U.S. guitarist who created the solid-body electric guitar (4) |
| BENTLEY | Wilson -; meteorologist who was a pioneer in the field of snowflake photomicrography (7) |
| PICASSO | Spanish-born painter of Guernica and pioneer of Cubism, Pablo ... |
| OKEEFFE | Georgia, painter and pioneer of American modernism (1'6) |
| BOBHOPE | Actor and pioneer of US stand up comedy known for his partnership with Bing Crosby (3,4) |
| COCHRAN | Eddie, musician and pioneer of rockabilly whose songs include Summertime Blues (7) |
| TELE | Made by Fender, the common name of the world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar (4) |
| LEOFENDER | US inventor who developed the first massproduced solid- body electric guitar, the Telecaster, in 1951 (3,6) |
| LACLEDE | Early French pioneer in the United States |
| KEROUAC | Jack ____ was a pioneer in the literary Beat Generation |
