| PARISHILTON | American media personality who is a great-granddaughter of the founder of a major hotel group (5,6) |
| PHILLIPS | A great-granddaughter of the Queen (4,8) |
| ISLA | A great-granddaughter of the Queen (4,8) |
| REVOLVINGDOOR | Entrance to a major hotel, perhaps, with rapid turnover of staff (9,4) |
| EDEH | Rosey Ugo ___ (Canadian media personality who is an Olympian and documentary filmmaker) |
| JENNY | ___ McCarthy media personality who is also actress Melissa McCarthy's cousin |
| SAVANNAH | _ Phillips, great-granddaughter of the Queen (8) |
| ZOROASTER | Persian prophet, the founder of a dualistic religion set forth in the sacred writings of the Zend-Avesta (9) |
| BUDDHA | Born Siddhartha Gautama into a royal family, the founder of a religion based on karma, the "four noble truths" and attaining nirvana (6) |
| STDABEOCSHEATH | Moorland plant named after the founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg, Co Donegal |
| HENRYFORD | Founder of a major auto company |
| LOWE | Founder of a major appliance chain |
| LUCIANFREUD | British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis |
| ALLIEHORTON | DAYS LEGACY GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER (two words) |
| OONACHAPLIN | Eugene O'Neill's great-granddaughter |
| DICKENS | Great-granddaughter of "Boz" who penned One Pair of Hands, My Turn to Make the Tea, One of the Family and the Follyfoot series (7) |
| ALICE | Princess - of Battenberg; great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (5) |
| ELON | First name of the founder of SpaceX, a private company set up to enable the colonisation of Mars (4) |
| EDSEL | Model of Ford motor car named after the son of the founder of the company, Henry (5) |
| NEALE | Surname of the founder of the Cambridge Camden Society and author of many well-known hymns, including Jerusalem The Golden (5) |