| RESTSTOPS | Thomas Edison and Woodrow Wilson, heading south to Delaware |
| BIGFOUR | The - -; David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson collec |
| DIST | Heading south to dine outside (4) |
| SARGENT | Portraitist of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson |
| ISLANDS | Linda's getting changed heading south to the Shetlands (7) |
| JOHNSINGERSARGENT | American portrait painter whose subjects included Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson |
| SMOCK | Heading south to ridicule the shooting garment! (5) |
| LIGHTBULB | *Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan |
| FORTMYERS | Florida city where Thomas Edison and Henry Ford had winter estates |
| ALVA | Middle name of Thomas Edison and Dick Cavett |
| TIPI | I and mine return home to Delaware, perhaps |
| IDEA | Light bulb, to Edison and comics |
| AVERSE | Hostile states close to Delaware (6) |
| CITE | Quote from Washington, briefly, close to Delaware (4) |
| HAS | "___ anyone here been to Delaware?" |
| TESLA | Inventor, Nikola, a pioneer of alternating electric current, who worked for Edison and, later, Edison's rival, Westinghouse (5) |
| MENLO | ___ Park (home base for Edison and Zuckerberg) |
| GREATMEN | Edison and Einstein, for two |
| IONISED | Edison and I somehow produced charged particles (7) |
| RAHWAY | City between Edison and Newark |
