| ALEXANDERBELL | US scientist best known as inventor of the telephone in 1876 (9,4) |
| BERNERSLEE | Tim - - - - - -, computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web (7-3) |
| HIGHSEAS | Greeting appropriate over the telephone in the main |
| DESERT | One of those similar to 5 down on the telephone in wilderness (6) |
| ALEXANDER | Antonio Meucci was finally acknowledged by the US Congress in 2002 as the inventor of the telephone instead of ... Graham Bell |
| LITTLEBIGHORN | Site of the battle in which the US 7th Cavalry were routed in 1876 (6,3,4) |
| RICHARDWAGNER | German composer whose cycle of music dramas, The Ring of the Nibelung, was first produced at Bayreuth in 1876 |
| DECIBEL | Unit partly derived from the name of the inventor of the telephone |
| APT | Like the name Bell for the inventor of the telephone |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876, the last novel she completed (6,7) |
| BEL | Fromagier who founded a company that produces "baby" Edam cheeses; or, a unit of sound intensity named after the inventor of the telephone (3) |
| ALARMBELL | Danger signal to cause panic to the inventor of the telephone (5,4) |
| BELL | Inventor of the telephone - or part of it (4) |
| CARPETSWEEPER | Household implement patented by Melville Bissell in 1876 (6,7) |
| HELLO | Word whose rise in popularity coincided with the spread of the telephone |
| MUTON | Smallest element of a gene capable of undergoing mutation, named by US scientist Seymour Benzer in 1955 (5) |
| CALLER | Someone on the other end of the telephone who knows your name? (6) |
| AAMCO | Company near the start of the telephone book listings |
| SAGAN | Leader of Senate once more dismissing one US scientist (5) |
| PAULING | US scientist, the only person to have received Nobel prizes for chemistry and peace |
