| LOVELACE | Considered the world's first computer programmer |
| ADALOVELACE | British mathematician and Lord Byron's daughter, dubbed the world's first computer programmer (3,8) |
| LUMIERE | Brothers who patented the cinematograph, considered the world's first film-makers (7) |
| ADA | World's first computer programmer, Byron's daughter ... Lovelace |
| GRASSE | Commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera considered the world's capital of perfume |
| CHEETAH | A large member of the cat family, considered the world's fastest land animal (7) |
| MONALISA | Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece La Gioconda, considered the world's most famous painting (4,4) |
| BABBAGE | 19th- century English mathematician and inventor whose Analytical Engine is considered to have been the first computer (7,7) |
| MOTH | The first "computer bug," in fact |
| WANG | First computer company to run an ad during the Super Bowl |
| INC | Magazine whose first cover in 1979 asked Ready for Your First Computer? |
| IBM | Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions |
| NOTEBOOK | Voice disapproval in college about kid's first computer |
| XER | Person whose first computer might have been a Commodore 64 |
| PALMTOP | Mike with best friend's first computer (7) |
| MAC | Scot's first computer? (3) |
| LAPTOP | Drink found on first computer (6) |
| MODEM | Fashion model's first computer device (5) |
| ENIAC | One of the first computers |
| COULDNTEXECUTE | The computer programmer said, "We ___" |
