| TURING | In 1936 this English mathematician and logician designed a hypothetical computing device |
| TURINGMACHINE | Hypothetical computing device designed by a Bletchley Park codebreaker (6,7) |
| RCA | In 1936 this early record company enjoyed sales of over a million copies of the Indian Love Call, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's hit from the film musical Rose Marie (1,1,1) |
| DESKTOP | A personal computing device designed to be on a table (7) |
| BABBAGE | Charles ---, English mathematician and engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer (7) |
| NEWTON | Isaac, English mathematician and physicist knighted by Queen Anne in 1705 (6) |
| BOOLE | George ___, English mathematician and philosopher who invented the logic which is the basis of modern computing |
| ISAACNEWTON | English mathematician and physicist whose principal work, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published in 1687 (5,6) |
| LAPTOP | Mostly Apple redesigning confines to a computing device (6) |
| ISAAC | ___ Newton English mathematician and astronomer |
| ALANTURING | English mathematician and computer pioneer |
| LOVELACE | Ada _, English mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, cited as the world's first computer programmer (8) |
| VENN | This famous English logician lives in a small village near Bigbury-on-Sea (4) |
| ROUTER | List of duties for all to see obscuring small computing device (6) |
| TABLE | Computing device mainly provides means of summarising information |
| MEMORYSTICK | Office communication awfully tricky when adopting second computing device (6,5) |
| MODEMS | Unusual demo in Mississippi for computing devices (6) |
| EFFECT | Butterfly -; in chaos theory, a hypothetical example (illustrated in fractals) of how small changes can lead to big differences over time (6) |
| MOOT | Word originally for an assembly or meeting, later a law student's exercise of discussing a hypothetical case; or, by extension, a disputed point (4) |
| SCENARIO | A hypothetical sequence of events; a rough outline (8) |
