| ONETRACKMIND | What the inventor of the monorail had! (3,5,4) |
| BELIEWHITNEY | Contradict the inventor of the cotton gin? |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| PATENT | What the inventor seeks in quite clear (6) |
| ELTON | Zoologist and author of Animal Ecology who was one of the inventors of the concept of the food chain (5) |
| DECIBEL | Unit partly derived from the name of the inventor of the telephone |
| ALEXANDER | Antonio Meucci was finally acknowledged by the US Congress in 2002 as the inventor of the telephone instead of ... Graham Bell |
| 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) |
| TAE | Monogram of the inventor of the phonograph |
| TORR | Unit of pressure named after the inventor of the barometer (4) |
| WATT | Unit of power named after the inventor of the word horsepower (4) |
| EASTMAN | Surname of the inventor of the Kodak camera (7) |
| BABBAGE | Surname of the inventor of the first mechanical computer (7) |
| TEEN | Age range of the inventor of the trampoline |
| ALVA | Middle name of the inventor of the electrographic vote recorder |
| APT | Like the name Bell for the inventor of the telephone |
| TREVOR | Forename of the inventor of the clockwork radio and many other devices (6) |
| EDWARD | First name of Jenner, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine (6) |
| PISANELLO | Considered the inventor of the portrait medal, Italian painter whose surviving frescos are Annunciation and Saint George and the Princess (9) |
