| ETRURIA | ____ Works was Josiah Wedgwood's name for his factory opened in 1769 in Stoke-on-Trent |
| SPODE | Josiah who was Josiah Wedgwood's rival |
| EBBWVALE | Welsh town whose now defunct steel works was the largest in Europe |
| FORSYTHIA | Hundred in his factory made redundant, failing plant (9) |
| ARROWS | Fletcher fires them from his factory! (6) |
| JOSIAHSPODE | English potter born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1754 |
| DARWIN | Josiah Wedgwood's grandson who was the naturalist on the five-year Beagle voyage and later published his theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species (6) |
| TOQUE | Headgear said to be used in Stoke-on-Trent (5) |
| WEDGWOOD | Pottery firm based in Stoke-on-Trent (8) |
| CREAMWARE | Name before its commission to Queen Charlotte in 1765 of Josiah Wedgwood's earthenware with an ivory-coloured body and glaze (9) |
| RHS | The abbreviated name of a botanical society co-founded by Josiah Wedgwood's son, John (1,1,1) |
| SAL | Tim Metcalfe's abbreviated name for his wife in Corrie (3) |
| TERRELLA | From Latin for "little Earth", William Gilbert's name for his experimental spherical lodestone used to model said planet's magnetic field (8) |
| THESTOA | Location where 51D of Citium taught, and the origin of the name for his followers |
| GRAY | Old Etonian and Cantabrigian whose anonymous elegy written in, and expressing the evening mood of, an English churchyard in Stoke Poges achieved instantaneous success on its publication in 1751 (4) |
| CORSICA | Island on which Napoleon was born in 1769 (7) |
| AJACCIO | Corsican city in which Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 (7) |
| BRANDISHING | Trade-name for his gin cocktail depicted waving a sword (11) |
| WINNIETHEPEW | Churchgoer's pet name for his seat? |
| TISH | Gomez Addams's pet name for his wife |
