| FORREST | ___ 21, driving force in the global success of his eponymous US chocolate company (7) |
| ROLLERMANIA | Nickname for the global success in the mid-1970s of a boy band from Edinburgh (11) |
| ENVIOUS | "The _ man grows lean at the success of his neighbour": Horace (7) |
| HERSHEY | US chocolate manufacturer based in Pennsylvania (7) |
| CONNIFF | Ray ___, American bandleader and arranger best known for his eponymous group of singers during the 1960s |
| ALIBABA | Arabian Nights character aided in his eponymous tale by the slave girl Morgiana (3,4) |
| CADBURY | Famous chocolate company (7) |
| KEATING | Australian PM - or his eponymous musical (7) |
| ROCKEFELLER | The success of his venture, the Standard Oil Company, made him the richest man in the world, John D |
| OCTOPUS | Armed force in the ocean |
| BOURINOT | Sir John George __, author of his eponymous Rules of Order, widely used in Canada (1894) (8) |
| SPACEX | Musk's private aerospace company that secures a dominant stake in the market and is a cornerstone of his financial empire with a valuation of $350 billion as of December 2024, playing a critical role |
| HIGGS | Peter ....., Nobel laureate who predicted the existence of his eponymous boson (5) |
| SCHUSTER | Max -, founder of the eponymous US publishing house with Richard Simon in 1924 (8) |
| NEWWORLDORDER | Shake-up in the global balance of power ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| GANGES | The first G in GG, a team that Anand leads in the Global Chess League, stands for this. (6) |
| JOHNFINNEMORE | Radio 4 comedian and star of his eponymous Souvenir Programme (4,9) |
| KINSEY | Alfred __, author of his eponymous reports on human sexual behaviour (6) |
| PEACEPRIZE | Nobel honour awarded to Canada's (future) Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in 1957 "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis" o |
| STOODFOR | "Everybody knew who I was, and nobody knew what I ____" (Colin Wilson, on the success of his first book, The Outsider) |
