| GOTTLIEB | German scientist, inventor and industrialist credited with the invention of the automobile engine, Daimler |
| ERA | Horse-and-buggy ___ (period before the invention of the automobile) |
| BENFRANKLIN | Early American scientist, inventor and founding father who created the first bifocals and the lightning rod |
| STUTTGART | German city known as the 'cradle of the automobile' |
| CARING | One is mindful of the automobile in Gateshead (6) |
| TESLA | Pioneering electric car manufacturer which takes its name from a scientist/inventor (5) |
| EDISON | US scientist/inventor |
| HARGREAVES | James ?, 18th-century English weaver credited with the invention of the spinning jenny |
| HARLEYDAVIDSON | Motorcycle manufacturer credited with the invention of the chopper style |
| ROWLANDHILL | ____ is credited with the invention of the postage stamp |
| SLOANE | Credited with the invention of drinking chocolate, a physician and collector whose material formed the basis of the Natural History Museum (6) |
| TEES | Piles of wet sand supporting golf balls prior to the invention of the pegs of the same name used today; or, the exact centres of houses in curling (4) |
| NOBEL | Credited with the invention of dynamite in the west, which Swedish chemist left a substantial fortun |
| BIFOCAL | Benjamin Franklin is credited with the invention of what type of spectacles? (7) |
| KINGTON | Miles ___, British journalist, musician and broadcaster credited with the invention of Franglais |
| CARAVAGGIO | 16th-century Italian painter credited with the invention of tenebrism, a style of chiaroscuro (10) |
| ELLIS | William Webb ---, English clergyman often credited with the invention of rugby football (5) |
| WEBB | William --- Ellis, English clergyman often credited with the invention of rugby football (4) |
| TYCHO | Danish astronomer (1546-1601) who made the most accurate measurements of the solar system prior to the invention of the telescope (5) |
| BRAHE | Danish astronomer (1546-1601) who made the most accurate measurements of the solar system prior to the invention of the telescope (5) |
