| BACKUPBANDS | Miami Sound Machine and others, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| LINDT | Rodolphe ___, Swiss chocolate manufacturer who invented the conching machine and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate |
| SOCIETY | Royal -; founded by Robert Boyle, Sir Christopher Wren and others and granted a royal charter by Charles II, the UK's national science academy (7) |
| GRINDSTONE | A large, round object that is turned by a machine and used to make tools sharper (10) |
| RUNSACROSS | Meets up with the others, and manages to get to the other side (4,6) |
| STEPONIT | How to use a stair climbing machine and look smart |
| THECONGA | Dance in a Miami Sound Machine song |
| CONGAED | Danced to Miami Sound Machine in 1985 |
| ESTEFAN | Gloria ___ and Miami Sound Machine |
| AMPS | Miami Sound Machine sound machines |
| GLORIA | _ _ _ _ _ _ Estefan, Cuban-U.S. singer/songwriter who was originally in Miami Sound Machine (6) |
| EMILIOESTEFAN | Miami Sound Machine musician who received the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994: 2 wds. |
| GLORIAESTEFAN | Cuban-born singer/songwriter who performed with the Miami Sound Machine (6,7) |
| SPINNINGWHEEL | A machine, and part of others |
| LEAST | "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at ___ don't hurt them": Dalai Lama (5) |
| EE | The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication |
| PLAYGOOSEBERRY | Embarrass others and act what might be part of a fool |
| TREADMILL | An exercise machine, and a job that's tiring (9) |
| DIAGRAM | Explanatory sketch of a machine and its parts (7) |
| PACHINKO | Played in colourful parlours, what game in Japan is a mixture between slot machine and pinball? (8) |
