| DREADNOUGHTS | Battleships of the early 1900s (12) |
| GRAFSPEE | German pocket battleship of the Second World War |
| MATINEEIDOLS | Male movie stars of the early 1900's |
| PIPECLEANERS | Wire brushes used in crafting invented by John Harry Stedman and Charles Angel in Rochester, New York in the early 1900s (4,8) |
| ENGELBERT | He ensured he wasn't that easy to forget by taking the stage name adopted from an Austrian classical composer of the early 1900s, ... Humperdinck |
| ASTAIRES | Dancing duo of the early 1900s |
| COBB | Stealing master of the early 1900s |
| TROTSKY | Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s |
| MANMOUNTAINDEAN | Frank Leavitt, wrestler of the early 1900s, better known by this name |
| DADA | Art movement of the early 1900's |
| YEATS | Preeminent Irish poet of the early 1900's |
| OKAPI | Forest-dwelling animal of the Congo jungle, it was unknown to the West until the early 1900s |
| RAZZ | One of the oldest forms of poker, played since the early 1900s (4) |
| ALFREDADLER | Austrian psychiatrist who developed the concept of the inferiority complex in the early 1900s (6,5) |
| TULSA | Site of the "Black Wall Street" in the early 1900s |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to the South Pole in the early 1900s: 2 wds. |
| RAGTIME | Kind of jazz piano music invented in the U.S. in the early 1900s (7) |
| SARAHSOIL | 2025 film whose titular character was known as the "Richest Colored Girl in the World" in the early 1900s |
| WRIGLEY | In the early 1900s, which chewing gum manufacturer was the US's biggest advertiser? (7) |
| PATHE | Which French company led the filmmaking world in the early 1900s? (5) |
