| MARTELL | Jean, Jersey-born French wine merchant who founded a cognac distillery in 1715 (7) |
| MOET | Claude, French vintner and wine merchant who founded a champagne house (4) |
| NEGOTIANT | French wine merchant (9) |
| REMY | ___ Martin (cognac distillery) |
| LIBERTY | Merchant who founded a store on Regent Street in 1875, today noted for luxury goods, stationery, silk scarves, floral art fabrics in Tana lawn cotton etc (7) |
| ASPREY | William, English merchant who founded a silk printing business in 1781, later a luxury store (6) |
| GRESHAM | Sir Thomas -; financier and merchant who founded the Royal Exchange in 1566 (7) |
| VINTNER | Wine merchant or, less commonly, a manufacturer of wine; from Latin via Old French (7) |
| DAMPIER | William ___, English navigator and pirate who died in 1715 (7) |
| AMYLAME | New Jersey-born comedienne who created The Mama Cass Family Singers (3,4) |
| ADMIRAL | What insurance group founder bought The Secret Garden Distillery in 2022? (7) |
| AMPHORA | A speed rating or a thing old Greek wine-merchant used? (7) |
| DOGGETT | Thomas ?, Irish actor; founder of a sculling prize in 1715 that is still competed for on the River Thames on August 1 (7) |
| SUNKING | Nickname of Louis XIV, the French monarch who reigned for 72 years and 110 days until his death in 1715 (3,4) |
| RIOTACT | Legislation designed to prevent civil disorder passed by the government in 1715 and repealed in 1967 (4,3) |
| SIDECAR | A cognac cocktail (7) |
| THEBOSS | Jersey-born rock icon, familiarly |
| ANTONIO | Venetian merchant who was in debt for a pound (7) |
| MOSELLE | German wine merchant running short after order's held up (7) |
| TWINING | Thomas ___, English merchant who opened Britain's first known tea room in the Strand in 1706 |
