| MICHELIN | Andre and Edouard, French industrialists who began a hotel and restaurant guide for motorists in 1900 (8) |
| EGONRONAY | Founder of hotel and restaurant guides (4,5) |
| DRIVEIN | Like, eg, a cinema for motorists in the US |
| ANDRECITROEN | French industrialist who founded a car company in 1919 (5,7) |
| RICARD | Anise/liquorice flavoured aperitif created by a French industrialist in 1932 (6) |
| VALETS | Some hotel and restaurant staffers |
| FORTE | Trusthouse ___, former hotel and restaurant chain; musical 63 Across |
| ONEILL | Pulitzer-winning playwright who was born in a hotel and died in a hotel |
| GEORGEORWELL | Who began a novel with "It was a bright cold day in April, and all the clocks were striking thirteen."? (6,6) |
| ZANEGREY | Author who began a dental practice in New York City in 1898 |
| FREDPERRY | Table tennis and tennis player who began a sports clothing brand in 1952 (4,5) |
| MARKS | Michael *****, refugee who began a market stall in Leeds in 1884 (5) |
| MANET | Edouard, French modernist painter whose Olympia is in the Musee d'Orsay and whose A Bar at the Folies-Bergere is in London's Courtauld Gallery (5) |
| SAMSTOWN | Second studio album by The Killers, named after a hotel and casino in Las Vegas (4,4) |
| NABIS | Les -; group of French artists who included Pierre Bonnard, Paul Serusier and Edouard Vuillard (5) |
| NABI | Any one of the members of a symbolist art group who included Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard (4) |
| DIEGO | Uruguayan former footballer who began a professional tennis career in 2023, _ Forlan (5) |
| ERIC | "Me and the bad bitch i pulled by being silly" (comment on a photo of ___ Andre and Emily Ratajkowski) |
| ARIANAGRANDE | Singer who began a new partnership with Starbucks on March 5, fittingly since her surname is a drink size there; they should hire our other three theme entries, too |
| STOBART | Eddie, British businessman who began a haulage firm in 1970 (7) |
