| ODOM | Basketball player once married to a Kardashian, Lamar _ (4) |
| LAMAR | With 44-Across, N.B.A. player once married to a Kardashian |
| LIZZIE | _ Cundy, celebrity model once married to a footballer (6) |
| ASHE | A tennis player once - and a novel by Rider Haggard! (4) |
| WREN | Known collectively as a herd or a chime and depicted on farthings, the "king of the birds" with a female married to a robin redbreast in an old poem (4) |
| ANEW | A trio of bridge players once more (4) |
| PALM | Friend gets married ... to a tree? (4) |
| IMAM | I get mother married to a religious leader (4) |
| MATE | Is this sailor married to a widow? (6,4) |
| LLOYD | John ....., retired British tennis player once married to Chris Evert (5) |
| EVERT | Chris ..... , retired tennis player once married to John Lloyd (5) |
| JOEDIMAGGIO | US baseball player once married to Marilyn Monroe (3,8) |
| FODEN | Ben _, rugby union player once married to Una Healy (5) |
| EARL | Marquis, ___, viscount; married to a countess |
| POSH | Spice Girl married to a soccer star |
| BOOP | Mr. ___ (webcomic whose protagonist is married to a classic cartoon character) |
| EXPO | Montreal ball player, once |
| OMAN | Syracuse player, once |
| PAPI | "Big" Red Sox player, once |
| NCAA | Org. most NBA players once played under |
