| SANDERS | Colonel, U.S. businessman who founded a fast food chicken restaurant chain in 1952 (7) |
| AANDW | Oldest restaurant chain in America, founded in 1919 |
| MACY | Rowland H. , U.S. businessman who founded a department store chain in New York in 1858 (4) |
| HARDEE | Wilber who founded a fast-food chain |
| CONRAD | ___ Hilton, the U.S. businessman who founded the hotel chain of that name (6) |
| AVIS | Warren, U.S. businessman who founded the first car rental company to be based at an airport (4) |
| ROEBUCK | U.S. businessman who sold eggs at a dollar. (7) |
| HYATT | ____ von Dehn, U.S. businessman who co-founded a hotel chain in the 1950s (5) |
| TENDERS | Fast food chicken |
| POPEYES | Chicken restaurant founded in Louisiana |
| STRAUSS | Levi, German-born businessman who founded the first company to make blue jeans (7) |
| BIRDSEYE | Clarence, U.S. businessman who developed a process for freezing foods in small packages (8) |
| TITO | Dennis, U.S. businessman who became the first 'space tourist' in 2001 (4) |
| BOEHLY | Todd, U.S. businessman who became chairman of Chelsea FC in 2022 (6) |
| HARRYRAMSDEN | Yorkshire businessman who founded a fish and chips chain of stores in 1928 (5,7) |
| LOUISVUITTON | French businessman who founded a luggagemaking company in 1854 (5,7) |
| BURTON | Montague, Lithuanian-born British businessman who founded a menswear chain (6) |
| COOK | Thomas ---, British businessman who founded a travel agency in the 19th Century (4) |
| FIRESTONE | American businessman who founded a tyre and rubber company in 1900 (9) |
| LEVI | **** Strauss, German-born businessman who founded a company to make blue jeans (4) |
