| ANGLOAMERICAN | British and South African mining company founded by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (5,8) |
| COMESACROPPER | Falls heavily for officer with me and South African farmer (5,1,7) |
| VIRGIN | Global brand and business group founded by Sir Richard Branson (6) |
| ACT | Party founded by Sir Roger Douglas and Derek Quigley (inits) (1,1,1) |
| BOTHA | Equally a Boer War hero and South African PM (5) |
| BANTU | Central and South African tribal language group (5) |
| ROGERFEDERER | Former tennis star, a Swiss and South African dual national (5,7) |
| MOROCCO | Middle-of-the-road companies looking to North and South African territory (7) |
| WEDDELLSEA | Arm of the Atlantic where Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ship Endurance were grounded by ice during his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (7,3) |
| SHACKLETON | Sir Ernest Henry ---, 1874-1922, British explorer (10) |
| BEES | Nickname of the public service broadcaster founded by Sir John Reith (4) |
| ENDURANCE | Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, crushed by the ice in Antarctica in 1915 (9) |
| EXCHANGE | Royal -; founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1565, London's first purpose-built trading centre (8) |
| OUNDLE | Northamptonshire public school founded by Sir William Laxton in 1556 (6) |
| HABITAT | Retailer of household furnishings, founded by Sir Terence Conran (7) |
| AVRO | Aircraft firm founded by Sir AV Roe in 1910 (4) |
| SCOUTS | Name a worldwide youth movement founded by Sir Robert Baden-Powell (6) |
| TESCO | Which major supermarket business was founded by Sir Jack Cohen? (5) |
| PROMS | In short, the concerts founded by Sir Henry Wood (5) |
| RHODES | Englishman who founded the De Beers Mining Company |
