| RUSSIA | Country that Michael Romanov ruled when he was made tsar on July 21, 1613 |
| REIGNED | Ruled when conditions were bad, say (7) |
| LINED | Ruled when declined to give up last month (5) |
| TSARS | Boris Godunov and Michael Romanov |
| TSAR | Michael Romanov, for example |
| CZAR | Michael Romanov, for one |
| POTTER | Hero Harry of the book series that ended when its final title, involving deathly hallows, was released on July 21, 2007 |
| INMYFEELINGS | Drake song that replaced his own Nice for What at #1 on the charts on July 21 2018: 3 wds. |
| ERNIE | Orange Muppet character on US television's Sesame Street introduced on July 21 1969 (5) |
| LOWEST | By far the coldest continent, the world's ______ recorded temperature, aˆ’128.6 A°F (aˆ’89.2 A°C), was measured at Vostok Station on July 21, 1983 (6) |
| BULLRUN | Name of two American Civil War battles on July 21, 1861 and August 10-12, 1862 (4,3) |
| FROSTY | "He was made of snow, but the children know how he came to life one day" |
| HEARD | "Home Alone" actor John who died on July 21 |
| BARBIE | Movie being released on July 21 with Margot Robbie in the title role and Ryan Gosling as -- well, you know |
| EXILE | One away because he was made to be so (5) |
| MONTURE | He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 |
| VICAR | Professional title of Corrie's Billy Mayhew, before he was made an archdeacon (5) |
| ROMANOV | Russian imperial dynasty that ruled from 1613 until 1917 (7) |
| ALIG | He once asked Buzz Aldrin, "Is you upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk?" |
| BASKETBALLS | Spheres that Michael Jordan shot through the basket, dribbled or dunked |