| BOEINGARROW | If an aerospace giant merged with a shirt manufacturer, they'd be ___ |
| LILLYLIVER | If a pharmaceutical giant merged with a famous University of California laboratory, they'd be ___ |
| MARKETGARDENING | Business giant merged disastrously with Rank |
| GOTITOFFTHEGROUND | "First, I founded an aerospace start-up, but I never ..." |
| THRUST | Calculation for an aerospace engineer |
| SHOWINTEL | If a cable movie channel merged with a Silicon Valley giant, they'd be ___ |
| ROYALPAINE | If a competitor of Coke and Pepsi merged with a major investment firm, they'd be ___ |
| FANNIEPAC | If a major mortgage lender merged with a West Coast phone company, they'd be ___ |
| THREEDECKER | If Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing merged with a maker of power tools, they'd be |
| UNDERCOAT | ... with a shirt, perhaps, to be glossed over (9) |
| CLARET | Girl with a shirt that is a shade of red (6) |
| NECKTIE | Band of fabric tied in a knot and worn with a shirt (7) |
| EVENT | Uniform with a shirt for a function (5) |
| DASHIKI | His kid had a problem with a shirt! (7) |
| SINGLET | A garment; the one with a shirt tail (7) |
| TIGHTS | They'd be a strange sight attached to a shirt tail! (6) |
| ESTANCIA | Can site get merged with a cattle station? |
| DOUBLET | A garment paired with a shirt (7) |
| DHOTI | Long loincloth traditionally worn by male Hindus in India, often with a shirt such as a kurta (5) |
| NICETY | Fine quality diamonds worn with a shirt in New York (6) |