| LUMIERE | Auguste and Louis, French cinema pioneers who invented a process of colour photography (7) |
| PASTEUR | Chemist who invented a process of heat-treating food (7) |
| LEBLANC | Nicolas, French chemist who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt (2,5) |
| TULL | Agricultural pioneer who invented a seed drill in 1701 (4) |
| EASTMAN | George ___, US photography pioneer who invented the Kodak camera, patented in 1888 (7) |
| BRAILLE | Louis, French educator who produced a system of writing used by the blind (7) |
| NEWWAVE | Movement in French cinema of the 1950s and 60s (3,4) |
| BLERIOT | Louis ---, French aviator who made the first flight across the English Channel (7) |
| DENEUVE | French cinema's iconic Catherine (7) |
| JOURDAN | Louis -, French actor who played Gaston Lachaille in 1958 film musical Gigi |
| RENOIRS | Pierre Auguste and Jean |
| LUMPIER | Cinema pioneer mostly accepting piano, accommodating more pieces (7) |
| RENAULT | Louis -, French motor car manufacturer born in 1877 (7) |
| SIKORSKY | Igor, Russian-born aviation pioneer who invented the world's first mass-produced helicopter (8) |
| RENAISSANCE | Album that Beyonce dedicated to "the pioneers who originate culture" (July, 2022) |
| DEBROGLIE | Louis, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929 (2,7) |
| SETTLERS | Pioneers who pay the bills (8) |
| ATARI | Arcade computer pioneers who made the game Pong |
| SAHA | Louis, French striker who scored the fastest ever goal in an FA Cup Final (4) |
| REARD | Louis -, French designer of the modern two-piece swimsuit (5) |
