| PROCTER | GAMBLE PARTNER; THEIR COMPANY GAVE SOAPS THEIR NAME |
| STOODFIRM | Tolerated their company but didn't yield an inch |
| OPTION | Share ____ , a scheme enabling employees to buy shares in their company below market rate (6) |
| AUCTIONED | Having acted in a company, gave it up (9) |
| ABANDONED | Having acted in a company, gave it up (9) |
| BRISTOL | This company gave us the Brigand and Britannia (7) |
| GINETTA | This company gave us the sporting G21 and G32s (7) |
| COOLIO | Rapper who didn't want Weird Al Yankovic to parody Gangsta's Paradise as Amish Paradise (but the record company gave Yankovic permission) |
| SKYLARKS | Birds that gave their name to a former Buick model |
| ANGLE | Member of Germanic people who gave their name to 49ac (5) |
| RUS | Medieval European people who gave their name to a nation |
| MOHAWK | Iroquois people who gave their name to a famous hairstyle (6) |
| UTE | People who gave their name to a state |
| ROSES | Which flowers gave their name to a series of 15th-century English civil conflicts? (5) |
| RHESUS | What research monkeys gave their name to a factor in human blood? (6) |
| BEEEATERS | These European birds eat about 200 bees a day. (Hence their name.) Their summer diet is mainly bumblebees, and in winter they eat honeybees and dragonflies. The bird rubs the insect against the branch |
| MARTINI | The Italian liquor maker ___ and Rossi, gave their name to which cocktail? (7) |
| FRANK | Member of the Germanic peoples who conquered Gaul in the 6th Century and gave their name to a new country (5) |
| ANGELCAKES | Heavenly fancies, seraphic sponges, glorious genoise gateaux, divine pastries or ethereal white bakes, their name haloing their light airy almost float-away textures (5-5) |
| TANGERINES | Citrus fruits taking their name from a Moroccan seaport (10) |
