| POPOV | Electrical engineer (1859-1906) acclaimed in Russia as the inventor of radio |
| ALEXANDRA | The last Empress of Russia as the spouse of Nicholas II (9) |
| MARCONI | Inventor of radio-telegraphy (7) |
| PIERRE | French physicist and chemist Curie (1859-1906) who, along with his wife Marie, discovered radium |
| ACADEMICAL | Head of administration acclaimed in review of college (10) |
| UNITARY | Like some local authorities initially acclaimed in college test (7) |
| ALEXANDER | Antonio Meucci was finally acknowledged by the US Congress in 2002 as the inventor of the telephone instead of ... Graham Bell |
| IRTYSH | River that rises in the Altai Mountains in China and flows to join the Ob River in Russia as its chief tributary |
| TIMBERNERSLEE | British computer scientist credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web (3,7-3) |
| BERNERSLEE | Tim - - - - - -, computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web (7-3) |
| SERGIO | Italian film director credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre (6,5) |
| LEONE | Italian film director credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre (6,5) |
| KNOUT | What stout whip was used in Russia as an instrument of punishment? (5) |
| OCTOBER | Regarded in Russia as revolutionary time of year (7) |
| EARL | British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess, such as the inventor of the sandwich, John Montagu (4) |
| ALVARAALTO | Finnish architect and designer (1898-1976) known as the inventor of bent plywood furniture; the Paimio chair, Stool 60 etc. (5,5) |
| JIGSAWPUZZLES | British cartographer John Spilsbury, who made his "dissected maps" in 1766, is credited as the inventor of what? (6,7) |
| RENELALIQUE | 20th-century French designer of Art Nouveau jewellery and Art Deco glassware known as the inventor of modern jewellery (4,7) |
| JOHNNAPIER | Scottish mathematician known as the inventor of logarithms (4,6) |
| GUTENBERG | Johannes --, German who is regarded as the inventor of printing (9) |
