| ZEISS | Carl, whose optical instrument workshop, opened in Jena in 1846, developed into a firm with a high reputation worldwide (5) |
| ICAHN | Financier Carl whose name makes him sound like a revered figure |
| COMMUNIQUE | It states a firm with two thousand has no rival |
| CARL | and 7dn, German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846 |
| ALIEN | With the main xenomorph creature designed by H. R. Giger, a 1979 Ridley Scott film with Sigourney Weaver that developed into a media franchise (5) |
| IRONMAN | Triathlon that originated in Kona in 1978 and developed into a worldseries event and global brand that sold for $650 million in 2015 (7) |
| GOLDENEAGLE | Au pairs in Jena beat ugly English bird |
| ERICSSON | Lars Magnus ___, 19th-century Swedish inventor and founder of a telephone company that later developed into a multinational corporation (8) |
| CONUNDRUM | Firm with a woman in order to beat a problem (9) |
| ADVISER | A diver's developed into a mentor (7) |
| OTALGIA | A goal ? it developed into a pain (7) |
| DAMPISH | Pam has developed into a lovely girl, though a bit wet (7) |
| VOGEL | Eberhard ..... , 1962-76 East Germany, 1961 -70 FC Karl- Marx-Stadt and 1970-82 Carl Zeiss Jena striker (5) |
| GEICO | Insurance firm with a gecko in some of its ads |
| COPECK | Firm with a bit of a hit makes money abroad (6) |
| ETRADE | Investing firm with a * in its name |
| AGRICOLA | A girl managed to get firm with a Roman general (8) |
| PARTNERSHIP | Senior figures in firm with a joint association (11) |
| CONFRONT | Approach a small firm with a new facade (8) |
| MERRILLLYNCH | Investment firm with a bull in its logo |
