| ZEISS | Carl --, 1816-88, German optician and industrialist (5) |
| EYETEETH | The joint concern of opticians and dentists (3-5) |
| OPTIC | An optician's whisky dispenser in the pub (5) |
| PIANO | Instrument used by optician to get rid of tic |
| SPECS | Optician's offering, briefly |
| TOPIC | Item for discussion torn apart in front of Opticians Union (5) |
| CONTACTLENSES | Optical aids first made in 1888 by a German optician (7,6) |
| LUDWIGMOND | Guild now desperate to keep money and degree for German-born chemist and industrialist (6,4) |
| ALFREDNOBEL | Swedish chemist and industrialist who invented dynamite (6,5) |
| MAGNATE | Fly east after mother and industrialist |
| EMIL | First name of the Czech engineer and industrialist Skoda (4) |
| WEDGWOOD | Josiah --, 1730-95, potter and industrialist (8) |
| GULBENKIAN | Calouste, Scutariborn financier and industrialist nicknamed 'Mr. Five Per Cent' (10) |
| STROGANOV | Russian merchant, landowner and industrialist family - richest businessmen since the reign of Ivan The Terrible (9) |
| TENCENTSAGLANCE | '30 Rogers and Hart song about low optician fees? |
| EYECHART | Read it to the optician (3,5) |
| SEETHED | Optician using eye-test chart gave this instruction and went up the wall? (7) |
| EYE | What an optician examines |
| TAUTOLOGY | Ophthalmic optician, for example (9) |
| TWENTYTWENTY | Scores perfect for the optician? |
