| PERNOD | Henri-Louis ___, distiller who opened his first absinthe distillery in Couvet, Switzerland in 1797 |
| GUCCI | Guccio ?, leather craftsman who opened his first shop in Florence, Italy, in 1920 |
| RICKSTEIN | English celebrity chef who opened his first seafood restaurant in Padstow in 1975 |
| PAULSMITH | Fashion designer who opened his first shop in Nottingham in 1970 (4,5) |
| DISNEY | He opened his first company in Kansas in 1920 and by 1937 had produced the first feature length anim |
| GOODMAN | Len, Strictly Come Dancing judge who opened his own dance academy in 1973 (7) |
| TARLTON | NZ diver, undersea explorer and marine conservationist who opened his Underwater World in 1985 (7) |
| GJCOLES | Which retail entrepreneur opened his first shop in 1914 in Smith Street, Collingwood, using the slogan "Nothing over a shilling"? (1,1,5) |
| SKEGNESS | Lincolnshire resort where Billy Butlin opened his first holiday camp in 1936 (8) |
| UTICA | Woolworth opened his first store here, in 1879 |
| TWOPENCE | Short-lived British pre-decimal coin minted in 1797 in copper and 1818-1820 in silver (8) |
| KNOCKANDO | Distillery in Scotland named after the Moray village in which it is located (9) |
| MARTELL | Jean, Jersey-born French wine merchant who founded a cognac distillery in 1715 (7) |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels who lived at Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders and married on Christmas Eve in 1797 (5) |
| TOPHAT | In 1797, London haberdasher James Hetherington wore the first what in public, attracting such a crowd that several women fainted? (3,3) |
| KANT | German philosopher who wrote The Metaphysics of Morals in 1797 (4) |
| ADAMS | John, second U.S. president who succeeded George Washington in 1797 (5) |
| CHROMIUM | Chemical element 24, discovered by French chemist Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin in 1797 (8) |
| DONIZETTI | Gaetano, Italian composer born in 1797 noted for his opera Lucia Di Lammermoor (9) |
| BERYLLIUM | Silvery-white metal discovered by Nicholas-Louis Vauquelin in 1797 (9) |
