| COINAGE | The invention of money? (7) |
| TEES | Piles of wet sand supporting golf balls prior to the invention of the pegs of the same name used today; or, the exact centres of houses in curling (4) |
| TYCHO | Danish astronomer (1546-1601) who made the most accurate measurements of the solar system prior to the invention of the telescope (5) |
| BRAHE | Danish astronomer (1546-1601) who made the most accurate measurements of the solar system prior to the invention of the telescope (5) |
| TALBOT | William Fox -; author of The Pencil of Nature who lived at Lacock Abbey, famous for his contributions to the invention of photography (6) |
| CORK | The bark of this oak is used to produce wine bottle stoppers, though in less quantities since the invention of the Stelvin closure |
| SLOANE | Credited with the invention of drinking chocolate, a physician and collector whose material formed the basis of the Natural History Museum (6) |
| BETTYCROCKER | Which woman, one of the best-known cooks in the US, was only the invention of a flour company? (5,7) |
| LYING | Comedy starring Ricky Gervais as a writer who breaks the code of telling the truth, The Invention of ___ |
| GABOR | Dennis ?, 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of holography (5) |
| AEHOUSMAN | Poet who's the subject of Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" |
| JENNIFERGARNER | Co-star of Ricky Gervais in the romantic comedy film The Invention of Lying |
| ICEHOUSE | A building. partly underground, often in the grounds of large estates, used before the invention of freezers (3, 5) |
| RICKY | Star of The Invention of Lying, ___ Gervais |
| NOBEL | Credited with the invention of dynamite in the west, which Swedish chemist left a substantial fortun |
| GALVANI | Italian physician whose experiments inadvertently led to the invention of the voltaic pile and later inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein (7) |
| ROWLANDHILL | ____ is credited with the invention of the postage stamp |
| WATCH | A timepiece revolutionised by the invention of the mainspring (5) |
| SCRIBE | Before the invention of printing, a person employed to produce handwritten copies of documents (6) |
| BIFOCAL | Benjamin Franklin is credited with the invention of what type of spectacles? (7) |
