| PETERMONTEVERDI | Swiss car dealer who set up his own car-making brand in the 1960s (5,10) |
| GIORGIOARMANI | Fashion designer born in Piacenza, Italy, who set up his own company in 1975 (7,6) |
| BITTER | The Erich who founded his own car marque in the early 1970s (6) |
| NARCO | Refusal to accommodate crooked car dealer who breaks the law (5) |
| AGRIUS | British budget gear-making brand who can kit you out head to toe. (6) |
| COMPANIONOFHONOUR | British award that would shortly grace Swiss car? |
| SOLBERG | Petter ___, Norwegian who drove in the World Rally Championship 1998-2012 for Ford and Subaru, then set up his own team (7) |
| UBER | App often used by people who don't own cars |
| LEONARDCHESHIRE | Decorated British World War II RAF pilot who set up in 1948 a charity for disabled people (7,8) |
| ENTREPRENEURIAL | Having the qualities to succeed as a person who sets up businesses and business deals (15) |
| SALESAGREEMENTS | Car dealer documents |
| HEAVENHELPLEXUS | "God, assist a luxury car dealer?" |
| ACADEMY | The ___: school founded by Plato, which Aristotle attended before setting up his own school, the Lyceum (7) |
| CARVE | A wasted Gary Oldman _____d up his own face in Hannibal (& then his woof ate it!). |
| BENSTEIN | 1997-2003 game show host who put up his own money for prizes |
| PEELER | Old nickname for a policeman (taken from the Home Secretary who set up the Metropolitan Police in 1829) (6) |
| SCOTT | Peter, conservationist who set up the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 (5) |
| ROLLS | Engineer who teamed up with Henry Royce - the rest is car-making history |
| OKIE | Drug dealer who met his end at the hands of his captive, EastEnders' Harry Mitchell (4) |
| OLDS | Blacksmith's son who set up a car manufacturer in 1901 named after himself, closed by GM in 2004 (4) |
