| FOURSPEED | Like most manual transmissions in the 1970s and '80s |
| NAVAHO | Language used for encoded WWII radio transmissions in the Pacific |
| OAR | Manual transmission, in a canoe |
| ECCLES | John -; co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for his contributions towards the understanding of synaptic transmission in the brain (6) |
| CAMPION | Plant affected satellite transmission in the end |
| FOURTHGEAR | High end of some manual transmissions |
| TECHWRITER | One working on manual transmissions? |
| ASL | Manual transmissions?: Abbr. |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
| AUSTIN | Former British car maker which produced the Metro, , Allegro, Maxi and Montego in the 1970s and 80s (6) |
| LEONARD | One of the world's leading professional boxing champions in the 1970s and 80s, Sugar Ray ... |
| BELL | British driver who won the Le Mans 24-hour race five times in the 1970s and '80s (5,4) |
| REDBRIGADE | One of a network of far-left guerrilla groups active in Italy in the 1970s and 80s (3,7) |
| RALT | Successful racing car builder, initially in Australia in the 1950s and again in Britain in the 1970s and later (4) |
| ELM | Dutch ___ disease was prevalent in the 1970s and '80s (3) |
| MIKE | Late impressionist who was popular in the 1970s and 80s (4,7) |
| YARWOOD | Late impressionist who was popular in the 1970s and 80s (4,7) |
| TOMWATSON | American golfer who won five Open Championships in the 1970s and '80s (3,6) |
| RAYCLEMENCE | Former England goalkeeper who helped Liverpool win three European Cups in the 1970s and '80s (3,8) |
| BJORNBORG | Swedish tennis player who won six French Open singles titles in the 1970s and 80s (5,4) |
