| ZEISS | German optician who founded a precision workshop for mechanics and optics in Jena in 1846 (5) |
| CRANIAL | Like the auditory and optic nerves, e.g. |
| NERVE | What may be optic in bottle |
| AIMING | Preparing to take a precision shot - or at least intending to (6) |
| LASERCUT | Created by a precision ray |
| EYELENS | Topmost optic in a microscope |
| DIRAC | English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984) |
| SAALE | Left-bank tributary of Germany's Elbe River that flows through the cities of Jena and Halle (5) |
| VOGEL | Eberhard ..... , 1962-76 East Germany, 1961 -70 FC Karl- Marx-Stadt and 1970-82 Carl Zeiss Jena striker (5) |
| CARL | and 7dn, German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846 |
| KEVIN | Weatherfield mechanic and dad to young amputee Jack (5,7) |
| AXLES | Bars for mechanics |
| LUBES | Jobs for mechanics |
| DARKO | Donnie ___, 2001 film by Richard Kelly starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone |
| PIANO | Instrument used by optician to get rid of tic |
| PITSTOP | In F1, a brief period in a race when a driver pulls-over for mechanics to perform precisely-timed ty |
| CONTACTLENSES | Optical aids first made in 1888 by a German optician (7,6) |
| REPAIRS | For car owners in need of a fix, they provide work for mechanics (7) |
| CABLETIE | A small plastic one-use tool, vital to any workshop for keeping things together. (5,3) |
| STUDIO | From the Latin for "diligence", an atelier, bottega or workshop for painting or photography; or, a place to practise dance, film or record (6) |
