| LOVELACE | Surname of the person considered to be the first computer programmer |
| ADALOVELACE | Lord Byron's daughter, a writer and mathematician who is often thought to have been the first computer programmer (3,8) |
| BABBAGE | 19th- century English mathematician and inventor whose Analytical Engine is considered to have been the first computer (7,7) |
| CHARLES | And 23 Across 19th-century English mathematician and inventor whose Analytical Engine is considered to have been the first computer (7,7) |
| ADA | Lovelace considered the first computer programmer |
| DINOSAUR | Person considered to be out of date (8) |
| THEGOAT | Person considered to be the best in their field, is Capricorn |
| HASBEEN | Banshee condemns person considered to be no longer of any significance |
| MISALLIANCE | French word, roughly translating as "wrong union", for marriage with a person considered to be unsuitable or one's social inferior (11) |
| NERDS | Persons considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish. (5) |
| BRADSHAW | Surname of the person played by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex And The City. |
| SAVAGE | Surname of the person played by Jason Donovan in MDA. |
| DREW | Surname of the person who'd become an artist? (4) |
| IBM | Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions |
| MIND | Consciousness; soul; direction of the will; wits; a person considered as an intellectual or a thinker; or, a British mental health charity of which Stephen Fry is the president (4) |
| POOHBAH | From the name of the "Lord High Everything Else" in The Mikado, a person considered pompously self-important (4-3) |
| DEAR | You use this word at the beginning of a letter before the name of the person you are writing to (4) |
| ZARA | First name of the person 15th in line to the British throne (4) |
| MOTH | The first "computer bug," in fact |
| ENIAC | One of the first computers |
