| CROMPTON | Samuel ___, English inventor of the spinning mule (8) |
| WHITTLE | Frank ___, English inventor of the jet engine for aircraft (7) |
| PITMAN | Sir Isaac _; English inventor of the shorthand system (6) |
| SAMUEL | Forename of either the inventor of the spinning mule, a notable English diarist, the leader of the Shoreham Ancients or a fictional snuff-taking rat from whom Tom Kitten escapes (6) |
| SAMUELCROMPTON | The inventor of the spinning mule |
| NEWCOMEN | Thomas ___, English inventor who created the first practical steam engine for pumping water |
| HUNTSMAN | Benjamin -, 18th-century English inventor of crucible steel (8) |
| HARGREAVES | James _ (c 1720 - 1778), the Inventor of the spinning Jenny (10) |
| GYRATION | The spinning of a toy ring perhaps (8) |
| ROTATION | The spinning motion of a planet about an internal axis (8) |
| BESSEMER | Henry ___ (1813 - 98), English inventor who developed a major steel-making process (8) |
| CARTWRIGHT | Edmund, English inventor of the power loom (10) |
| BAYLIS | Trevor, English inventor of the wind-up radio (6) |
| CORBY | Peter, English inventor of the electric trouser press named after him (5) |
| SHRAPNEL | Ammo named after its English inventor |
| ARKWRIGHT | Inventor of the spinning frame; or, Granville's uncle in Open All Hours (9) |
| TEACLOTH | A fool shut in the spinning drier (3,5) |
| DAVY | Humphry ---, English inventor of a safety lamp who coined the name 'laughing gas' for nitrous oxide (4) |
| BRAMAH | Joseph ___, English inventor, 1748-1814 (6) |
| ISAACPITMAN | English inventor of phonographic shorthand (5,6) |
