| GRESHAM | Thomas, English merchant and financier who founded the Royal Exchange in 1571 (7) |
| COLSTON | Edward _, English merchant and slave trader, whose statue was toppled in Bristol in June 2020 (7) |
| EDWARDCOLSTON | English merchant and slave trader, whose statue was toppled in Bristol, England in June 2020 (6,7) |
| TWINING | Thomas ___, English merchant who opened Britain's first known tea room in the Strand in 1706 |
| REDNESS | Show of embarrassment at the Royal Exchange sends it out (7) |
| BELLINI | Italian sculptor and goldsmith who died in Florence in 1571 (7) |
| REUTERS | News agency founded in 1851 at the London Royal Exchange (7) |
| RIDOLFI | Italian who masterminded the failed plot to overthrow Elizabeth I in 1571 (7) |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, Irish-born British choreographer who founded the Royal Ballet (7) |
| RICHARD | Medieval English merchant who was four times Lord Mayor of London (7,11) |
| EPSTEIN | Financier who had an oil painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress lounging on a chair in the Oval Office |
| REACTOR | Royal Exchange player, one to respond to stimulus (7) |
| PELLATT | Canadian financier who had Toronto heritage landmark Casa Loma built, Sir Henry _ (b.1859 - d.1939) |
| CERVANTES | Spanish novelist and dramatist who lost the use of his left hand in the battle of Lepanto in 1571 |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm - - -, actor and theatre manager who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 (4) |
| ASPREY | William, English merchant who founded a silk printing business in 1781, later a luxury store (6) |
| PETERHALL | British theatre director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 (5,4) |
| WHITTINGTON | Medieval English merchant who was four times Lord Mayor of London (7,11) |
| HARROW | One of the country's oldest and most famous public schools, founded by John Lyon in 1571 (6) |
| ANDREWMELLON | American financier who was the US secretary of the treasury 1921-32 (6,6) |
