| DUCATI | Motorcycle company founded in Italy in 1926 (6) |
| YAMAHA | Japanese motorcycle company founded in 1955 (6) |
| FILA | Sportswear company founded in Italy |
| TRIUMPH | British motorcycle company founded by German immigrant Siegfried Bettmann in Coventry |
| ANSARI | Specialist engine builder, originally founded in Italy but better known perhaps for its British branch's association with several classic UK vintage marques (6) |
| ASSISI | When doubling agreement in Italy - in Umbria (6) |
| GRAZIA | Weekly women's magazine that originated in Italy in 1938 (6) |
| SCOOTER | Motorcycle company invested in newly-built store (7) |
| SCOTT | UK motorcycle company active from 1908 to the 1960s, noted for effective two-stroke engines (5) |
| COLLIER | Birkenhead-born, Henry Herbert ___ (b. 1878), designer, inventor and founder of the Matchless Motorcycle Company (7) |
| BOLOGNA | Italian city that contains the Ducati Museum, related to the motorcycle company (7) |
| ACMILAN | Usual English name for the football club founded by Englishmen Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards in Italy in 1899 |
| RUBICON | Stream in Italy, in ancient times the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul (7) |
| CASERTA | German surrender site in Italy in 1945 |
| RAPALLO | Port and resort in Italy, in Liguria (7) |
| ESPRESSO | ___ machine, coffee device developed in Italy in the early 20th century (8) |
| MAGENTA | Read, we hear, about a battle in Italy in 1859 (7) |
| LASCALA | The chief opera house in Italy; in Milan (2,5) |
| ARNO | It runs in Italy in a particular notorious setting (4) |
| STRADIVARI | Luthier and stringed instrument maker born in Italy in 1644 (10) |