| LEDECKY | American swimmer Katie ___, who has a women's record seven Olympic swimming golds, including three successive wins in the 800m freestyle event in the last three Olympics |
| AMAJOR | Key with three #'s (2 wds.) |
| KATIE | Ledecky with seven Olympic swimming gold medals |
| FELIX | Track star Allyson with a record seven Olympic gold medals |
| VONN | This Alpine skier set a women's record with 82 World Cup race victories |
| ACLU | Group that has a Women's Rights Project: Abbr. |
| ANDPEACE | War -, Tolstoy's monumental novel (3, S) |
| MINHAJ | American comedian and writer Hasan ___ who has a comedy special on Netflix titled Homecoming King |
| ONEAL | Actor Ryan ___ who has a recurring role on "Bones" |
| MATTBIONDI | 1988 winner of seven Olympic swimming medals |
| RIO | Where swimmer Katie Ledecky won four Olympic golds |
| BIONDI | Matt ____ won eight swimming golds in the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics |
| ADLINGTON | Rebecca ---, winner of two swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Olympics |
| WORETHIN | Get gold including valuable rock with the reduced patience that evaporated as the saying goes? (4,4) |
| INDOOR | Indian gold, including ring, within building (6) |
| PHIL | --- Mickelson, American golfer who has won six majors, including three Masters tournaments (4) |
| SPITZ | American swimmer who won seven Olympic gold medals in 1972 (5) |
| EVERT | Women's tennis: who has won the French Open a record seven times? (5) |
| CHRISEVERT | Tennis player who won a record seven women's singles titles at the French Open: 2 wds. |
| ANYONE | "___ who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" (Einstein, apocryphally) (6) |
