| OLBRICH | Which architect, a student of Otto Wagner and co-founder of the Wiener Sezession, built the 1908 The |
| GERRITTHOMASRIETVELD | Which architect and leading member of Dutch neo-plasticism counts the famous red-blue chair of 1918 |
| GANDON | Which architect designed the Four Courts and the Custom House? (6) |
| PIERLUIGINERVI | Italian architect, a pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete (4,5,5) |
| WREN | An architect; a bird |
| GUSTAVKLIMT | This Austrian painter was the founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession. His painting Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) was bought by Oprah Winfrey at a 2006 auction for $87.9 million; |
| AIRSHIPS | Back in 1908 the military advisors to the German government suggested an invasion fleet of 200,000 of these inflatable craft |
| CLEVELAND | Grover _ (1837 -1908), the 22nd and 24th President of the USA (9) |
| PASS | Phrase meaning to shift responsibility, perhaps originating in poker games, gained popularity from 1908, "... the buck" |
| ANDREWMELLON | US Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32, and co-founder of an institute which is now part of a Pittsburgh university |
| SUNYATSEN | First president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Kuomintang (3,3-3) |
| JAYKAY | Lead vocalist and co-founder of the acid jazz and funk band Jamiroquai (3,3) |
| GASTONBELLEMARE | Poetry advocate and co founder of "Les Escrit des Forges" and recent Order of Canada recipient |
| DELAUNAY | French artist and co-founder of Orphism, whose major themes included abstraction, circular forms, colour rhythms and the Eiffel Tower (8) |
| RUTHERFORD | Father of nuclear physics and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for his work in the chemistry of radioactive substances (last name only) |
| PRUSSIA | German state that unified the country into an Empire under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck in 1871 (7) |
| COMPTONMACKENZIE | Author of Whisky Galore and co-founder of the Scottish National Party |
| DIRAC | Nobel Prize-winning physicist and co-founder of quantum mechanics whose discoveries have been described as "exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky" (5) |
| BERNARD | --- of Clairvaux, French abbot and co-founder of the Knights Templar (7) |
| HOOK | Peter, English bassist and co-founder of rock bands Joy Division and New Order (4) |
