| SIKORSKY | Inspired by stories by Jules Verne and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, inventor of the first mass-produced helicopter (8) |
| WENDYHOUSE | Inspired by stories by J. M. Barrie, a child's toy dwelling such as the Queen's Welsh thatched example Y Bwthyn Bach in the grounds of the Royal Lodge (5,5) |
| BOOKSELLERS | vendors of Verne and Virgil |
| NEMO | Underwater name of Verne and Pixar |
| NOUGHTSAND | 1891 volume of stories, studies and sketches by Arthur Quiller-Couch (7,3,7) |
| PETWORTH | Town in West Sussex, site of a stately home depicted in paintings and sketches by J. M. W. Turner (8) |
| OLDS | Maker of the first mass-produced auto |
| ACURA | Maker of the first mass-produced car with an all-aluminum body |
| AREPARTANDPARCELOF | "Hackney-coaches ____ the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and numbered by the wisdom of Parliament" (Dickens, in Sketches by Boz) |
| PALMER | Artist who created visionary paintings and sketches of the Shoreham landscape and was one of a small group inspired by William Blake known as the Ancients (6) |
| HELICOPTER | Invention whose successful model was made by Igor Sikorsky that was inspired by the sci-fi novel Clipper of the Clouds by Jules Verne |
| ORINOCO | South American river depicted in one of the Voyages extraordinaires sequence of novels by Jules Verne (7) |
| SUBMARINES | Inventions that inspired the sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne |
| FENDER | Leo, U.S. inventor who developed the first mass-produced electric guitar (6) |
| SINCLAIR | English electrical engineer, inventor of the UK's first mass-market home computer and a battery electric vehicle (8) |
| PHILEAS | - Fogg; protagonist in the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (7) |
| SECONDSERVICE | Does it mean that fault was found with the first mass? (6,7) |
| TOSHIBA | Japanese tech company which produced T1100, the first mass-market laptop (7) |
| MODELT | Ford car which is regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile (5,1) |
| BABBAGE | Surname of the inventor of the first mechanical computer (7) |
