| HIGGINS | Alex ---, Northern Irish snooker player who was World Champion in 1972 and 1982 (7) |
| ALEXHIGGINS | World snooker champion in 1972 and 1982 (4,7) |
| MARK | _ Allen, Northern Irish snooker player who won the 2018 Masters (4) |
| KENDOHERTY | Irish snooker player who won the 1997 World Championship |
| HURRICANE | 1972 and 1982 world snooker champion Alex Higgins' nickname (9) |
| ELDER | Alex ..... , Northern Ireland, Burnley and Stoke City defender born in 1941 (5) |
| REARDON | Ray _, late snooker player who was World Champion six times (7) |
| EMERSON | ____ Fittipaldi, Brazilian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1972 and 1974 (7) |
| SPASSKY | Russian chess player who was world champion from 1969 to 1972 (5,7) |
| MANSELL | Former British Formula One driver who was World Champion in 1992 (7) |
| FISCHER | Bobby ___, US chess player who was world champion from 1972 to 1975 |
| EMANUEL | German chess player who was World Champion from 1894 to 1921 (7,6) |
| RYANDAY | Welsh snooker player who was runner-up in the 2017 World Grand Prix (4,3) |
| CONNORS | US tennis player who was world No.1 from 1974-77 and in the top 10 for 16 years (7) |
| NASTASE | Ilie ___ , Romanian tennis player who won the US Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973 (7) |
| EBDON | Peter ---, snooker player who was World Champion in 2002 (5) |
| PARROTT | John ___, snooker player who was a team captain on A Question of Sport (7) |
| NAHANNI | This site is in the Northwest Territories. It was established as a national park in 1972, and it includes canyons and plenty of wildlife throughout its 1,177,700 acres (476,968 hectares). A river that |
| WITHOUT | ___ You, chart- topper for Nilsson in 1972 and Mariah Carey in 1994 (7) |
| FITTIPALDI | Which Brazilian racing driver was F1 world champion in 1972 and 1974? (10) |
