| COOKE | Inventor of the electrical telegraph with Sir Charles Wheatstone (5) |
| TESLA | Subject of the 2015 biography "Inventor of the Electrical Age" |
| CONCERTINA | Free-reed musical instrument patented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1829 (10) |
| WEBER | One of the founders of modern sociology; or, the German physicist who invented the electromagnetic telegraph with his friend Carl Friedrich Gauss (5) |
| TASK | First from Telegraph with question for Labour (4) |
| PUGIN | Architect, polemicist and principal proponent of the Gothic revival who wrote Contrasts and collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the detail, fittings and furnishings of the Palace of Westminster (5) |
| ALTER | Transform some of the electrical terminals (5) |
| CRISP | Snack food from shop Sir Charles brought back (5) |
| LYELL | Scottish geologist, Sir Charles ___ (b.1797 - d.1875) |
| AUGUSTUSPUGIN | British architect who collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the Palace of Westminster (8,5) |
| LEADS | The electrical wires provide the clues (5) |
| WIVES | The Merry - of Windsor; one of the plays by Shakespeare with Sir John Falstaff (5) |
| BAKER | Engineer who designed the Forth Bridge with Sir John Fowler; or, the author of The Peregrine (5) |
| FUSES | Joins the electrical safety devices together (5) |
| EARTH | Soil, or the electrical connection to it! (5) |
| WIPER | One who steals loses second contact in the electrical world |
| AMANA | Appliance brand founded as The Electrical Equipment Co. |
| TEETH | "Dr. ___ and the Electrical Mayhem" (Muppet band) |
| ELLIS | Philologist who wrote extensively on the phonology of British dialects and pronunciation and developed a phonotypic alphabet with Sir Isaac Pitman (5) |
| DEATH | 2022 film with Sir Kenneth Branagh, ----- on the Nile (5) |
