| EBOR | - Handicap, flat race run at York in August last won by Muntahaa in 2018 (4) |
| OAKS | Annual flat race run at Epsom for three-year-old fillies (4) |
| BRED | Reared for short flat race run in reverse (4) |
| DICK | And 17. Famous highwayman hanged at York in 1739 (4,6) |
| FOSS | River joining the Ouse at York - in UFOs sensation! (4) |
| DASH | 100 yard ...., 1930-66 Commonwealth Games individual athletics event last won by Harry Jerome and Dianne Burge respectively (4) |
| POLO | 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936 Olympics team sport last won by Argentina (4) |
| EDEN | The Wallabies last won at - - - Park in Auckland in 1986 (4) |
| DOWN | Gaelic football club that last won the All Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in 1994 (4) |
| CUBS | Team that last won a World Series in 1908 |
| HABS | They last won the Stanley Cup in '93 |
| EBORHANDICAP | Flat horserace run at York every August (4,8) |
| NASSAU | ...... Stakes, Group 1 horse race run at Goodwood won by Opera Singer in 2024 (6) |
| ARCDETRIOMPHE | Prix de l'___, flat horse race run at Longchamp in Paris, begun in 1920 (3,2,8) |
| SYDNEYCUP | Australian Group 1 handicap horse race, run at Randwick Racecourse (6,3) |
| DAVISCUP | Annual international team event in men's tennis last won by Britain in 2015 (5,3) |
| SUPERBOWL | Main championship game of the NFL, last won by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in February (5,4) |
| OUSE | River at York |
| ROCKET | What exploded at Shetland Space Centre in August last year? (6) |
| CESAREWITCH | Handicap horse race run at Newmarket (11) |
