| ZEISS | Carl -, optical instruments maker established in Germany in 1846 (5) |
| ALFAROMEO | Italian car maker established in 1910 (4,5) |
| DWELL | Live in Germany in a good way (5) |
| ESSEN | Industrial city in Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia (5) |
| BEING | Part of a tribe in Germany in existence (5) |
| LYSOL | Brand-name disinfectant first introduced in Germany in 1889 (5) |
| LUGER | Semi-automatic pistol first patented in Germany in 1898 (5) |
| CANON | Originally named Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, the current name is derived from this Japanese company's first camera, which was in turn named for the Buddhist Bodhisattva of mercy |
| AMATI | Morning spent with Italy's foremost instrument maker (5) |
| SHOCK | First stout drunk in Germany in the past - that'll come as a bolt out of the blue (5) |
| CARL | and 7dn, German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846 |
| SPECS | Optical instruments, to some |
| EXAMS | English instrument-maker taken aback about first of musical tests |
| KNORR | Company best known for dehydrated stock and soup that was founded in Germany in 1838 |
| FANTA | Soft drink brand created in Germany in 1940, with a name derived from a word for imagination |
| DACHAU | Nazi concentration camp established in Germany within two months of Hitler becoming chancellor (6) |
| LENS | A transparent biconvex body in the eye which focuses upon the retina light rays entering the pupil / piece of transparent substance used in optical instruments to form an image |
| BAUSCH | Lomb's partner in optical instruments |
| SCOPES | Optical instruments in cloak smuggled aboard ship (6) |
| PERISCOPES | Optical instruments in submarines for looking above the surface of the water (10) |
