| EVONNEGOOLAGONG | 1971's award was given to this tennis star for winning Wimbledon that year; she won Wimbledon again in 1980 |
| ALICEMUNRO | Short-story author who announced her retirement from writing in 2013, the same year she won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| VIRGINIAWADE | She won Wimbledon in '77 |
| PATRAFTER | 2002's award was won by this tennis star; he won the US Open in 1997 and 1998 |
| 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 |
| ASHE | Tennis star for whom a stadium is named |
| LENDL | Top-ranked tennis star for much of the '80s |
| MILLINER | Daniil is this tennis star's first name. (8) |
| GEOFFREYRUSH | 2012's award was won by this thespian, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1997 for "Shine" |
| PAULHOGAN | The 2021 "Australian of the Year" award will be announced Jan. 25 in Canberra; 1985's award was won by this actor, who played Crocodile Dundee |
| HARRI | Identify this tennis player who took a sabbatical for three years and did office job before returning to the professional circuit and went on to win the men's doubles title in Wimbledon 2024? (5) |
| CATHYFREEMAN | 1998's award was won by this sprinter; she also lit the torch at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney |
| MODELT | 'Tin Lizzie' was a popular nickname given to this land mark Ford (5,1) |
| TAYLOR | Identify this tennis player from USA who won the women's doubles event at Wimbledon recently? (6) |
| KELLY | Geelong midfielder who made 2019 AFL All-Australian team and was later that year traded to West Coast (5) |
| PUSKAS | Ferenc, Hungarian footballer after whom FIFA named an annual award for the scorer of the most beautiful goal that year (6) |
| COCKTAIL | 1988 Tom Cruise film awarded that year's Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (8) |
| BULLOCK | This year, she's in both The Lost City and Bullet Train (6,7) |
| SANDRA | This year, she's in both The Lost City and Bullet Train (6,7) |
| ISIS | Credit given to this deity for raising Suez, say |
