| LIARS | Inventors of a sort |
| LIAR | Inventor, of a sort |
| ELTON | Zoologist and author of Animal Ecology who was one of the inventors of the concept of the food chain (5) |
| IAN | Forename of a novelist whose subjects include a bridge cheat, a diamond smuggler, a secret agent, a trapeze artist-turned-aviatrix and an eccentric inventor of a magical flying car called Chitty-Chitt |
| BRITS | Inventors of linoleum and the A.T.M., for example |
| WRIGHTBROTHERS | Inventors of the airplane |
| CHINESE | Inventors of the compass and movable type |
| LUMIERE | Inventors of Cinematographe (7) |
| COINERS | Inventors of new words |
| EDGEWORTH | Lunar Society member, inventor of a perambulator, a phaeton, a turnip cutter and a velocipede, father of 22 children including the author of Castle Rackrent (9) |
| MONTGOLFIER | Jacques and Joseph, inventors of the first practical hot-air balloon (11) |
| PHARMACISTS | The inventors of Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper and Pepsi-Cola all worked as ____ |
| NEWARK | From which New Jersey city came the inventors of patent leather, malleable cast iron and motion picture films? (6) |
| PASCAL | Inventor of a calculator whose correspondence with Pierre de Fermat to solve a gambling puzzle led to the pair's formulation of a theory of probability (6) |
| NISSEN | Surname of the inventor of a prefabricated steel structure, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel, designed during the First World War |
| LOUIS | Given name of M. Braille, inventor of a script for the blind, or M. Vuitton, designer of luggage |
| MARCONI | Italian physicist and inventor of a successful wireless telegraph (1896); he later worked on the development of shortwave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all modern long- |
| MOOG | Robert, inventor of a type of synthesiser (4) |
| RUBIK | Inventor of a form of cubism? (5) |
| HANSOM | Joseph ___, 19th-century inventor of a two-wheeled one-horse carriage with a fixed hood (6) |
