| MONTECARLORALLY | Annual motor racing event, founded in 1911, won by French driver Sebastien Ogier in January 2023 (5,5,5) |
| DAVISCUP | Annual men's tennis event founded in 1900 (5,3) |
| NAYSMITH | Gary ___, former Scottish international footballer who became Stenhousemuir manager in January 2023 and led them to promotion in the 2023/24 season |
| MOOD | "In Ha ___" (single from Ice Spice's debut EP, "Like..?," released in January, 2023) |
| INDY | Place for motor-racing event in empty diary, in short (4) |
| LEMANS | This French town became famous for the twenty-four hour endurance motor-racing event held there sinc |
| RALLY | In 2009, this motor-racing event kept the name but changed continents from Africa to South America, |
| GRANDPRIX | Motor-racing event (5,4) |
| RONDEAU | Jean ___, French driver and constructor who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980 in a car bearing his own name |
| TET | Holiday that will next be celebrated in January 2023 |
| MCCARTHY | Speaker of the House starting in January 2023 |
| POINTLESS | Lewis Capaldi song which reached number one in January 2023 (9) |
| LOEB | Sebastien ___, French driver who won the World Rally Championship every year from 2004 to 2012 (4) |
| CARLO | Annual motor rally organised by the Automobile Club of Monaco (5,5) |
| MONTE | Annual motor rally organised by the Automobile Club of Monaco (5,5) |
| DAKAR | ..... Rally, annual motor race founded by Thierry Sabine (5) |
| FORMULAONE | Champion Michael Schumacher's motor racing event (7,3) |
| IBM | American multinational technology corporation founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company |
| PELE | Brazilian soccer star whose January, 2023, wake was attended by an estimated two hundred and thirty thousand people |
| ALESI | Jean ....., French driver who competed in F1 from 1989 to 2001 (5) |
