| LELAND | Henry M _, founder of the two premier American luxury automotive brands, Cadillac and Lincoln (6) |
| EDCOLE | Chevrolet and GM career engineer and manager, best remembered, perhaps, for his involvement with the design of Cadillac and Chev small block V8s in the late '40s and mid '50s (2,4) |
| DUPONT | US maker of fine prestige automobiles from 1919 to 1931 - only 600 were built but they were considered worthy rivals to Packard, Cadillac, and the like (2,4) |
| EDEN | ___ Hazard, retired Belgian soccer star who won two Premier League titles at Chelsea FC |
| ORDER | Henry M. Robert's concern |
| FBI | Premier American domestic security agency: Abbr. |
| LOTUS | Place for parking American luxury car (5) |
| CORD | Old American luxury auto brand |
| JAGUAR | Automotive brand once a part of British Leyland |
| WESLEY | John ___, founder of the Methodist church (6) |
| DANIEL | Jack __, founder of the eponymous Tennessee whiskey distillery (6) |
| DARWIN | He and Lincoln were born on the exact same day: February 12, 1809 |
| BEARDS | Van Dyke and Lincoln, for example, in Panda with detective (6) |
| EBITDA | Bush and Lincoln left with first-class returns (6) |
| SEDANS | Cadillac CTS and Lincoln MKZ |
| NEWARK | Trent-side town between Nottingham and Lincoln (6) |
| CITIES | Washington and Lincoln? |
| NOVELS | "Burr" and "Lincoln" |
| MAATHAI | Wangari ___, founder of the Green Belt Movement and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize (7) |
| NICOLAI | Otto ___, founder of the Vienna Philharmonic best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor |
