| KARPOV | Anatoly -, 1993-99 FIDE World Chess Championship title holder (6) |
| FISCHER | World Chess Championship title-holder from 1972-75 (5,7) |
| BOBBY | World Chess Championship title-holder from 1972-75 (5,7) |
| PETROSIAN | Tigran ?, 1963-69 World Chess Championship title holder |
| CAPABLANCA | Jose Raul ?, 1921-27 World Chess Championship title holder |
| TAYLOR | Phil, darts player who won his sixteenth World Championship title in 2013 (6) |
| ASTANA | City in Kazakhstan that hosted the 2019 FIDE World Team Championships (6) |
| ALONSO | Fernando ---, Spanish Formula One racing driver who won the World Championship title in 2005 and 2006 (6) |
| BEENEY | Mark ...... , 1990-93 Brighton and 1993-99 Leeds keeper (6) |
| LITTLE | 1993-99 York City boss (4,6) |
| LYTTLE | Des, 1992-93 Swansea and 1993-99 Nottingham Forest defender (6) |
| STREET | "Homicide: Life on the ___" (1993-99) |
| HENDRY | Scottish snooker player who retired in 2012 with a record-breaking seven world championship titles (6) |
| ANATOLYKARPOV | The undisputed World Chess Champion 1975?85 and FIDE World Chess Champion 1993?99 |
| KRAMKIK | Vladimir, winner of the 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship (7) |
| KRAMNIK | Vladimir ___, winner of the 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship (7) |
| TOPALOV | Veselin ?, 2005 FIDE World Chess Championship winner |
| LYADOV | Anatoly ___, Russian composer whose tone poems include Baba Yaga and Kikimora (6) |
| ALEKHINE | Born in 1892, the fourth pre-FIDE world chess champion (8) |
| TABLETENNIS | Sport at which China's men's team clinched its 20th world team championship title in Sweden (5,6) |
