| HORNBY | Frank ___, English businessman who founded the Meccano toy company (6) |
| ERECTORSET | Classic Meccano toy |
| THOMASCOOK | English businessman who was a pioneer of tourism in the Victorian period (6,4) |
| MATTHEWS | Bernard, English businessman born in 1930 who founded a company selling turkey meat products (8) |
| CONRAD | ___ Hilton, the U.S. businessman who founded the hotel chain of that name (6) |
| BURTON | Montague, Lithuanian-born British businessman who founded a menswear chain (6) |
| FRANKHORNBY | English inventor who founded the toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908 |
| LEVISTRAUSS | German-born US businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans (4,7) |
| STRAUSS | Levi, German-born businessman who founded the first company to make blue jeans (7) |
| AVIS | Warren, U.S. businessman who founded the first car rental company to be based at an airport (4) |
| EDDYSHAH | Manchester-based businessman who founded the tabloid Today (4,4) |
| MATTEL | Toy company that launched the fashion doll Barbie in 1959 (6) |
| FISHER | American educational toy company founded in New York in 1930 (6-5) |
| HARRYRAMSDEN | Yorkshire businessman who founded the first in a chain of fish and chips stores in 1928 (5,7) |
| HASBRO | Toy company that held the first-ever Monopoly championship |
| LIONEL | Classic toy company only stocks one doll, ultimately (6) |
| WHITTLE | Sir Frank ___, English aviation engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine in 1930 (7) |
| MUIR | Frank ___, English humorist whose only novel was The Walpole Orange (4) |
| KENNER | Action figures toy company |
| DUNCAN | Toy company behind yo-yos |
