| TDK | Company best known for its cassette tapes |
| MACNAS | Galway theatre company best-known for its street performances. (6) |
| CHUBB | Company best known for its locks (5) |
| BACARDI | Family-owned spirits company best known for its eponymous white rum (7) |
| DENNIS | British company best known for its manufacture of trucks and buses since the 1920s (6) |
| EON | ____ Productions is a company best known for Bond films |
| CELADOR | Entertainment company best known for the TV format Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? |
| KNORR | Company best known for dehydrated stock and soup that was founded in Germany in 1838 |
| ITALA | Noted Italian auto company, best remembered for its 1907 success in the Peking to Paris endurance rally (5) |
| CRISIS | UK national charity for single homeless people, best known for its work over the Christmas period |
| WADE | Which UK ceramics company established in 1810 is best known for its collectible figurines? (4) |
| WINDMILLTHEATRE | Former name for a building in London best known for its nude shows from 1932 to 1964 (8,7) |
| NEUMANN | Which prominent German manufacturer of professional recording microphones is best known for its condenser microphones for broadcast? (7) |
| LOUISVUITTON | Luxury brand best known for its bags. (5,7) |
| RELIANT | Car manufacturer best known for its three-wheeled Robin (7) |
| ELSTREE | Village in Hertfordshire best known for its film and TV studios |
| YOSEMITE | National Park in California best known for its waterfalls (8) |
| CREMONA | Italian city on the Po, best known for its violin-making traditions and the Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari families (7) |
| EALINGSTUDIOS | Film production house that is best known for its 1950s comedies (6,7) |
| FOLSOM | City in Sacramento County, California, best known for its prison, made famous by concerts performed there by Johnny Cash |