| MONTAGU | The inventor of the sandwich whose descendants live at Mapperton House in Dorset (7) |
| EARL | 11th - of Sandwich; title of John Montagu, owner of Mapperton House with his countess wife Caroline (4) |
| INCAN | Empire whose descendants live in Peru |
| TUDORROSE | Design of house in Dorset our failing |
| SETT | Beastly home in Dorset town |
| ESAU | Biblical character whose descendants inhabited Edom |
| PROPER | This man, a head teacher from Mapperton who lives by the river, is terribly respectable (6) |
| PREP | This eccentric man, an occupational therapist from Mapperton, went to a fee-paying type of school (4) |
| BABBAGE | Surname of the inventor of the first mechanical computer (7) |
| DECIBEL | Unit partly derived from the name of the inventor of the telephone |
| EASTMAN | Surname of the inventor of the Kodak camera (7) |
| GALILEO | Go all ie about the inventor of the astronomical telescope (7) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| CRUSTINESS | The irritability of the sandwich man? (10) |
| PANINI | Grilled sandwich whose name is the plural of the Italian for 'little bread' (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) |
| ARDROSSAN | In which small South Australian port on Gulf St Vincent did the inventor of the Vixen stump-jump plough open a factory in 1880 for the manufacture of ploughs? (9) |
| BLT | Sandwich whose initials have been rearranged in five other ways in this puzzle |
| ALEXANDER | Antonio Meucci was finally acknowledged by the US Congress in 2002 as the inventor of the telephone instead of ... Graham Bell |
| ELTON | Zoologist and author of Animal Ecology who was one of the inventors of the concept of the food chain (5) |
