| SYNTHESISER | Jean Michel Jarre was a pioneer in the use of this electronic musical instrument |
| PIERLUIGINERVI | Italian architect, a pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete (4,5,5) |
| WESTINGHOUSE | George, U.S. engineer and pioneer in the use of alternating current (12) |
| COLOSSUS | In January 1943, Tommy Flowers, a Royal Post Office engineer, built this electronic machine to decipher a complex encryption system used by Hitler and the German High Command. |
| TRANSISTOR | American John Bardeen won two Nobels in physics; the first one (1958) was for co-creating this electronic device |
| TABLET | Doctor may prescribe this electronic device (6) |
| PROPAGANDA | The first use of this word in English was in reference to a Roman Catholic organization established in the 17th century by Pope Gregory XV; this word was part of its much longer Latin name. Today the |
| DNA | Nobel prizewinner for medicine Maurice Wilkins was a pioneer in the discovery of this structure of l |
| OXYGENE | An album from Jean-michel Jarre is like a bit of poxy Genesis (7) |
| MASK | The true contents of hand-written letters can be hidden through the use of this method, which require the recipient to place a shaped template over the letter. |
| BENTLEY | Wilson -; meteorologist who was a pioneer in the field of snowflake photomicrography (7) |
| AERO | The wrong era comes to nothing on album by Jean Michel Jarre (4) |
| VERDI | Venerated Italian composer, a pioneer in the eld of opera, made a senator in 1874 (5) |
| KEROUAC | Jack ____ was a pioneer in the literary Beat Generation |
| HONGKONG | Album by Jean Michel Jarre (4,4) |
| RAMPLING | Charlotte, actress once married to Jean-Michel Jarre (8) |
| ARCLAMP | Stage work requires the use of this type of high-intensity but dimmable light (3,4) |
| LARIAT | What a trial the use of this rope is! (6) |
| PHOTOSHOP | Adobe Inc objects to the use of this trademark as a verb |
| BASQUIAT | Jean-Michel ___, American artist who died of a heroin overdose in 1988 at the age of 27 |