| SAILTHESEVENCC | Take a world cruise? |
| ASEA | Like those on a world cruise |
| HBHONDA | Yellow-branded 250cc team that nearly saw Reinhold Roth take a world title. (2,5) |
| RONESSETT | Tried to take a world title off both Galvano and Eubank. (3,6) |
| RIO | World cruise stop |
| OCEANLINERS | Vessels which operate world cruises... (5, 6) |
| VICTOR | Amazing Spaniard who was an Olympic Bobsleigh competitor, a water-skiing world champion, and took a World Formula 750 title for Yamaha. (6,6) |
| PALOMO | Amazing Spaniard who was an Olympic Bobsleigh competitor, a water-skiing world champion, and took a World Formula 750 title foryamaha. (6,6) |
| END | "Grown-up Christmas List" was written by a person who wished for a world where "everyone would have a friend... and love would never ___" |
| MISANTHROPE | A world-hater in metaphors for a change |
| MEADOWLARK | Make a world suitable for a flyer (10) |
| TONGA | A sport with a World Cup tournament |
| BACKPACKER | A world traveller may support a warehouse worker |
| NEONDEION | Nickname for the only man to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series |
| LANKA | Chaminda Vaas scored a hat-trick on the first three balls of a World Cup match between Bangladesh an |
| ATHOS | Greek 'holy mountain', location of a semi-autonomous monastic community, a World Heritage Site since 1988 (5) |
| HURST | English footballer who is the only man to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final (5) |
| CRAM | Athlete known as the Jarrow Arrow who set a world record in 1985 when he ran 1,500 metres in a time of 3.29.67 (4) |
| AGENTS | About a secret organisation in a world with superheroes (Marvel's ------ of SHIELD) |
| GEOFFHURST | The only footballer to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final |