| KARPOV | Anatoly _; chess world champion for 10 years (6) |
| FOSTER | Tasmanian woodchopper, world champion for 21 consecutive years, David ... (6) |
| DOOHAN | Michael ___, 500cc motor cycling World Champion for five consecutive years from 1994 to 1998 (6) |
| LYADOV | Anatoly ___, Russian composer whose tone poems include Baba Yaga and Kikimora (6) |
| LASKER | Emanuel _; world chess champion for 27 years (6) |
| PILATE | Fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving for 10 years under Emperor Tiberius (6) |
| MODELT | Car that only came in black for 10 years |
| BATMAN | Disqualification including Hole in the Wall's champion for justice (6) |
| CRUNCH | Charlie gets to manage champion for decision time? (6) |
| STARCH | Leading champion for a form of stored energy in food (6) |
| GAMBIT | The Queen's _; chess-based drama series (6) |
| ANTHEM | Patriotic closing song of Act 1 of the 1986 musical Chess, sung by Anatoly Sergievsky (The Russian) (6) |
| RV | The initials on the tank for the 500cc World Champion for 17 straight years until just over 50 years ago. (2) |
| SEBASTIANVETTEL | Formula One world champion for four consecutive years (2010-13) |
| CAPABLANCA | Jose, Cuban chess world champion 1921-7 (10) |
| SELBY | Snooker's world champion for the fourth time in 2021 (5) |
| JIM | Mr Redman, five times a World Champion for Honda in the 1960s. (3) |
| SPASSKY | Boris --, chess world champion in 1969 (7) |
| FISCHER | Bobby ----, US chess world champion in 1970s (7) |
| LOEB | Successful French rally driver, world champion for nine consecutive seasons from 2004 to 2012 (4) |
