| HINGSEN | 1980s decathlon world record holder Jurgen ____ never beat Daley Thompson in a major championship |
| IANWOOSNAM | Only Welsh golfer to have won a major championship |
| DALEY | _ Thompson, 1980s decathlon star (5) |
| DALEYTHOMPSON | First decathlon world champion |
| BABE | ___ Didrikson Zaharias, Olympic gold medalist in track and field who went on to win 10 L.P.G.A. major championships |
| BEREAVEMENT | Grief over death will never beat me anyway (11) |
| OPTHA | "You'll never beat my score!" |
| NANNY | Household occupation held by Emma Thompson in a 2005 comedy film set in Victorian England (5) |
| SAXON | John, actor whose film roles include Lieut. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street (5) |
| CARRINGTON | Depicted by Emma Thompson in a film, an artist associated with Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey (10) |
| SADIE | Miss Thompson in a Maugham story |
| PHILMICKELSON | Left-handed golfer who won his sixth major championship at the PGA Championship in 2021: 2 wds. |
| LANNYWADKINS | American golfer whose only major championship victory was in the 1977 USPGA Championship at Pebble Beach |
| BIGG | “I’ve got the ____, boys” (Daley Thompson just after his first Olympic decathlon win) |
| GARY | ___ Woodland American golfer who won his first major championship the U.S. Open in 2019 |
| GEMMA | Scottish golfer who made her major championship debut at the 2019 Women's PGA Championship, _ Dryburgh (5) |
| TRACKSHOE | Daley Thompson often put his foot in it |
| GRANDSLAM | Term in tennis for winning all four major championships in a year (5,4) |
| BEN | US golfer, known as The Hawk, who had nine major championship wins between 1946 and 1953 (3,5) |
| HOGAN | US golfer, known as The Hawk, who had nine major championship wins between 1946 and 1953 (3,5) |
