| SHIREEN | Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israeli forces in May 2022 (7,3,5) |
| ABUAKLEH | Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israeli forces in May 2022 (7,3,5) |
| ANAS | Al Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza in August 2025 (4,2-6) |
| ALSHARIF | Al Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza in August 2025 (4,2-6) |
| MARIUPOL | Ukrainian city captured by Russian forces in May 2022 (8) |
| ENTEBBE | Ugandan city and site of a 1976 hostage-rescue mission by Israeli forces |
| GEETANJALISHREE | Author of the novel "Tomb of Sand," about the journey of an eighty-year-old woman living in India, which won the International Booker Prize (May, 2022) |
| ANTHONYALBANESE | Prime minister of Australia who succeeded Scott Morrison on 23 May 2022 (7,8) |
| NINE | Age that Jake Windass will turn in May 2022 in Corrie (4) |
| DEPECHEMODE | English synthpop band formed in 1980, whose keyboardist Andy Fletcher died in May 2022 (7,4) |
| ALBANESE | Anthony ---, politician who became prime minister of Australia in May 2022 (8) |
| LINE | New route through London that opened in May 2022 (9,4) |
| MARKOV | Georgi, emigre Bulgarian journalist killed in London in 1978 by a poisoned umbrella (6) |
| IPOD | Device discontinued in May 2022 |
| EMINEM | US rapper inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in May 2022 alongside Duran Duran and Dolly Parton (6) |
| DUNFERMLINE | Scottish town officially awarded city status as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in May 2022 (11) |
| PYLE | Pulitzer journalist killed in combat in 1945 |
| RORYPECK | Journalist killed in Russia in 1993, whose eponymous Trust supports freelance journalists (4,4) |
| GUERIN | Veronica ___, Irish journalist killed in Dublin in 1996 (6) |
| SHATILA | Scene, in 1982, of a 21 of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese militia, assisted by Israeli troops (5,3,7) |
