| IRINA | ..... Press. Olympic pentathlon champion in 1964 (5) |
| PRESS | Irina ....., Olympic pentathlon champion in 1964 (5) |
| PETERS | Mary ...... , in athletics, women's Olympic pentathlon champion in 1972 (6) |
| IRINAPRESS | 1964 Olympic pentathlon champion (5,5) |
| EDITH | Maguire, women's 200 metres Olympic champion in 1964 (5) |
| HAYES | Men's 100 metres Olympic champion in 1964 (5) |
| MARY | Peters, 1972 Olympic pentathlon champion (4) |
| HALMA | Game played using a board of 256 squares; or, a weighted long jump in the ancient Olympic pentathlon (5) |
| RAND | Mary ___, women's long jump Olympic champion in 1964 (4) |
| LYNN | .... Davies, men's long jump Olympic champion in 1964 (4) |
| TYUS | Women's 100 metres Olympic champion in 1964 and 1968 (4) |
| SURTEES | Six-time worid 500cc motorcycle champion who became F1 champion in 1964, the only person to have won both titles (7) |
| SPENT | Exhausted from being in this pentathlon, yet... (5) |
| THORPE | Native American 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon champion, Jim ... (6) |
| SIEGL | Siegrun ..... , 1976 Olympics pentathlon gold medallist in a clean sweep on the podium for East Germany (5) |
| EPEES | Fencing weapons used in the modern pentathlon |
| FENCE | Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon |
| LESUN | Aleksander ..... , 2016 Olympics modern pentathlon gold medallist (5) |
| VIDTS | 2022 and 2024 World Indoor Championships pentathlon gold medallist (4,5) |
| EVENT | One of five in a pentathlon |