| ORSINI | One of the many Italian 'Etceterini' small sports cars that flourished from 1945 to the early '60s (6) |
| MGS | Small sports cars |
| CENTURION | The British army's main battle tank from 1945 to the 1960s, replaced by the Chieftain (9) |
| ATOMICAGE | Period from 1945 to the present |
| CLAVICHORD | Instrument developed from the medieval monochord that flourished from about 1400 to 1800 and was revived in the 20th century. Rectangular in shape, and its case and lid were usually highly decorated, |
| AZTEC | Mesoamerican culture in central Mexico that flourished from 1300 to 1521 (5) |
| SPRITE | Small sports car produced by Austin-Healey (6) |
| TWOSEATER | Small sports car won't accommodate a third wheel? (3,6) |
| MAP | From the Latin meaning "sheet of the world", any one of the many diagrammatic representations of Earth's surface created in the art or science of cartography (3) |
| INTUITION | "One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the - with its symbolic thinking." Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Wat |
| EASTERN | The E of LNER, one the 'big four' railways companies that flourished in the UK before the government takeover of services |
| INCA | Civilisation which flourished from the early 1400s to the mid-1500s, when it was destroyed (4) |
| GTOS | Japanese market name for the sports cars that Mitsubishi built during most of the 1990s (4) |
| TRUFFLES | Fruiting bodies of a subterranean fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus tuber (8) |
| SEALINGWAX | One of the many things the Walrus wanted to talk about with the Oysters (7,3) |
| MALI | Trading empire that flourished in western Africa from the 13th to the 16th century. (4) |
| HEERLEN | Industrial city in the S.E. Netherlands that was a major coalmining centre from the late 19th Century to the early 1970s (7) |
| BUCKLER | UK post-war sports car, built from 1949 to the early 1960s, often powered by the side-valve Ford Ten motor - several came to New Zealand and raced with some success (7) |
| SALON | An assembly of guests in a fashionable household from the 17th to the early 20th centuries |
| ETCHING | Work of art created with a printmaking technique involving the use of acid, drypoint or engraving, such as any one of the many by Rembrandt (7) |
