| KINGDOM | Isambard Brunel's realm (7) |
| EASTERN | Great -; Isambard Kingdom Brunel's "great babe" steamship that was too big for any dry dock or harbour at the time of her launch (7) |
| CLIFTON | ___ Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (7) |
| BRISTOL | Brunel's SS Great Britain is to be found here (7) |
| SALTASH | One of the oldest boroughs of Cornwall, it is the location of Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge (7) |
| BRIDGES | Structures designed by engineers including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Rennie, Robert Stephenson and Thomas Telford, among other things (7) |
| GREAT | Brunel's third and last steamship (5,7) |
| ENGINEERING | Artfully contriving career for the Brunels |
| BRIDGEBUILDING | Brunel's speciality was acting as peace envoy |
| ARCH | Records omitting Brunel's section of bridge, perhaps |
| BORNEO | Brunel's locale |
| ISAMBARD | Victorian engineer Brunel's first name (8) |
| GREATEASTERN | Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel that laid the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865 (5,7) |
| BRUNEL | Clifton Suspension Bridge engineer, Isambard Kingdom ... (6) |
| CIVILENGINEER | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for instance (5,8) |
| LARGESSE | Description of Brunel's Great Britain? East showing generosity |
| STAR | First locomotive to run on Brunel's broad gauge (5,4) |
| PADDINGTON | London railway station, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, serving Cornwall, Devon and Wales |
| AVON | River flowing through Bath and under a bridge originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (4) |
| STEAMSHIP | A vessel driven by water vapour, such as the Great Britain, Great Eastern or Great Western designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9) |
