| HANDBALL | Seven-a-side sport won by Denmark and Russia at the 2016 Olympics by the men's and women's teams respectively |
| JUTLAND | Peninsula shared by Denmark and Germany (7) |
| HOCKEY | Team ball game won at the 2004 Olympics by Australia in the men's event and Germany in the women's event (6) |
| UCONN | Only sch. to win both the men's and women's N.C.A.A. basketball titles in the same year |
| HIGHJUMP | 2004 Olympic field event won by Stefan Holm and Yelena Slesarenko in the men's and women's competiti |
| KHABAROVSK | Port and major industrial centre in Russia at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur Rivers (10) |
| PARALLEL | -- bars was the men's gymnastics discipline won at the 1976 Olympics by Sawao Kato (8) |
| CAMBRIDGE | University that celebrated double victory at this year's Boat Race when both men's and women's teams took respective leads (9) |
| LUKA | Bosnian station that was connected to Sarajevo for the 1984 Winter Olympics by the Olympic Express (5,4) |
| POLO | Olympics team sport won by Argentina in 1924 and 1936 (4) |
| KENYA | Country represented by both the men's and women's race winners of the 2022 NYC Marathon |
| BOYCOTTED | Like the 1980 Summer Olympics, by the U.S. |
| NETBALL | Seven-a-side sport played on a rectangular court (7) |
| OMSK | City in Russia at the confluence of the Om and lrtysh Rivers (4) |
| ASTRAKHAN | Market city and port in southern Russia at the head of the Volga River delta |
| NORILSK | Industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at the foot of the Putorana Plateau |
| NAOMIOSAKA | This tennis star represents Japan in the 2021 Olympics; by Japanese law she must relinquish U.S. citizenship to do so, but officials in Tokyo aren't pressing the issue |
| CROSSDRESSER | Angry type behind the scenes is comfortable in both the men's and ladies' department (5-7) |
| HUNDRED | The -------, men's and women's 100-ball cricket tournament that debuted in 2021 (7) |
| AFA | - - - Amosa, Samoan No 8 who scored against Russia at the 2019 World Cup (3) |
