| ROYCE | Henry, engineer who founded a company with C.S. Rolls in 1907 (5) |
| DAVIDNEILSON | Coronation Street actor who plays the owner of Roy’s Rolls |
| FAUN | A fun frolic with C.S. Lewis's Mr Tumnus perhaps (4) |
| SACKVILLEWEST | TV broadcast with C. S. Lewis and Lake poet |
| GLOCK | Gaston ?, Austrian engineer who founded a company in 1963 that now makes firearms (5) |
| ZEISS | see 3dn, German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846 |
| JACOB | John's opening a company with B Epstein, perhaps |
| ROLLS | Motoring and aviation pioneer who co-founded a company that manufactures vehicles symbolised by the Spirit of Ecstasy or Flying Lady (5) |
| EIMER | Return Irish address to me and Romeo with C?chulainn's wife (5) |
| ACORN | Oak seed from a company with sailors |
| WITCH | 'Sorceress' with C in (5) |
| THREE | Number of U. S. states that start with "C" |
| MIDST | Centre with C central to empty speaking? (5) |
| DEAGE | Render more youthful, as with C.G.I. |
| LANCIA | Vincenzo, Italian engineer who founded a car company in 1906 (6) |
| CARL | and 7dn, German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846 |
| ARUP | Ove ___, English engineer who founded a multinational corporation that bears his name and was knighted in 1971 |
| PORSCHE | Ferdinand ---, Austrian automotive engineer who founded a motor vehicle consulting firm in 1931 (7) |
| NESTLE | Henri _ _ _ _ _ _, GermanSwiss confectioner born in 1814 who founded a company producing formula milk (6) |
| MATTHEWS | Bernard, English businessman born in 1930 who founded a company selling turkey meat products (8) |
