| BRYANT | William ___, businessman who set up a match-making company with fellow Quaker Francis May in 1843 (6) |
| LIGHTINDUSTRY | What a match-making factory is engaged in! (5,8) |
| NAYAR | Arun _, businessman who married Elizabeth Hurley in 2007 (5) |
| SETS | They make up a match as one lays the table (4) |
| WOLFSON | Scottish businessman and philanthropist who set up a foundation in 1955 for promoting and funding medical research and education (7) |
| TOADIE | Jarrod '___' Rebecchi, Ramsay Street resident who set up a foundation in his late wife Sonya name (6) |
| MADAMETUSSAUD | French sculptor who set up a highly popular permanent London exhibition in 1835 (6,7) |
| OLDS | Blacksmith's son who set up a car manufacturer in 1901 named after himself, closed by GM in 2004 (4) |
| WEIR | Scottish rugby union player who set up a foundation to raise money for research into motor neurone disease (6,4) |
| DODDIE | Across Scottish rugby union player who set up a foundation to raise money for research into motor neurone disease (6,4) |
| TIARET | Town in W. Algeria which was rebuilt after its occupation by the French in 1843 (6) |
| GIORGIOARMANI | Fashion designer born in Piacenza, Italy, who set up his own company in 1975 (7,6) |
| SMOLLETT | Surgeon who set up a medical practice in Downing Street before writing novels about the adventures of characters including Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle (8) |
| FENCER | Fighter with weapon who sets up a barrier? (6) |
| LEONARD | British winner of the Victoria Cross who set up a number of Foundation Homes from 1948 for disabled |
| CHESHIRE | British winner of the Victoria Cross who set up a number of Foundation Homes from 1948 for disabled exservicemen (7,8) |
| LOUISVUITTON | French fashion designer and businessman who founded a luggage-making company in 1854 (5,7) |
| BRUNEL | Great Western Railway pioneer and engineer who designed SS Great Eastern - the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1843 (6) |
| FRIEND | The ---, weekly Quaker magazine founded in 1843 (6) |
| JEKYLL | Gertrude, British horticulturist who was born in 1843 (6) |