| LEDZEPPELIN | British rock band who achieved huge success in the 1970s (3,8) |
| MADEIT | Was a huge success in Media developing end product (4,2) |
| PINKFLOYD | British rock band who released their debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn in 1967 (4,5) |
| MOVE | The ?, British rock band who recorded 1969 UK no 1 single Blackberry Way |
| HIT | Big success in a Whitehall farce (3) |
| ROLLERMANIA | Nickname for the global success in the mid-1970s of a boy band from Edinburgh (11) |
| BLOCKBUSTER | Prevent American man becoming huge success |
| MAKINGITBIG | Finding huge success |
| ALLENBY | British field marshal who achieved success over the Turks at Gaza in 1917, leading to the capture of Jerusalem (6,7) |
| EDMUND | British field marshal who achieved success over the Turks at Gaza in 1917, leading to the capture of Jerusalem (6,7) |
| OSMONDS | The ___ , U.S. family music group including Donny who achieved fame in the 1970s (7) |
| DEELEY | British presenter who found success in the US, Cat ------ (6) |
| TEARS | _ for Fears: English duo who had huge international success in the 1980s (5) |
| ANSON | Admiral George ___, whose reforms of the British navy contributed to its success in the Seven Years' War of 1756- 63 (5) |
| KRAUSER | Manufacturer who had success in the 1980s in such disparate classes as 80cc and Sidecars. (7) |
| WHITE | Colour of the man's suit, a success in the Guardian(5) |
| POTEMKIN | Catherine the Great’s lover who achieved a peaceful annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 1783 |
| NADAL | Tennis champ who achieved the career Grand Slam in 2010 |
| RIHANNA | Barbadian singer who achieved her first number-one single with the song SOS in 2006 |
| DONBUDGE | US tennis player who achieved the sport's first grand slam, in 1938 (3,5) |
