| AINSLIE | Ben _, competitive sailor knighted in 2013(7) |
| ATHLETE | Highly trained competitive sailor is one (7) |
| INSOLENT | Where each August competitive sailors may be offensive (8) |
| BAKEOFF | The Great British ___, competitive cookery show with Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood (4,3) |
| NAIPAUL | V S ___ (1932 - 2018), writer knighted in 1990 who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 (7) |
| CHARLIE | Eventually knighted in 1975, which communism supporting actor' s knighthood was blocked in 1956 because of the fear of American reactions? (7,7) |
| CHAPLIN | Eventually knighted in 1975, which communism supporting actor' s knighthood was blocked in 1956 because of the fear of American reactions? (7,7) |
| STARS | "Dancing With the ___" (competitive TV show) |
| TAVENER | Signed to The Beatles record label Apple in the 1960s and knighted in 2000, a favourite composer of the Prince of Wales who wrote Song for Athene (7) |
| EPHRAIM | ____ Mirvis, Chief Rabbi in the UK knighted in the 2023 New Year Honours (7) |
| EPSTEIN | Jacob ---, American-born British sculptor knighted in 1954 (7) |
| HORDERN | Michael, stage and film actor who was knighted in 1983 (7) |
| THOMSON | William ___ (1824 - 1907), Belfast-born physicist, knighted in 1866 (7) |
| LUTYENS | Edwin ___ (1869 - 1944) London-born architect knighted in 1918 (7) |
| WHEELER | Sir Mortimer ___ (1896 - 1976), Glasgow-born archaeologist, knighted in 1952 (7) |
| STEWART | Patrick _, actor knighted in 2010 (7) |
| WORRELL | Frank, West Indies cricket captain knighted in 1964 (7) |
| COWDREY | Colin, former England Test cricket captain knighted in 1992 (7) |
| TENNIEL | John ___ (1820 - 1914), British illustrator and cartoonist, knighted in 1898 (7) |
| RICHARD | Entrepreneur who was knighted in 1999, Sir _ Branson (7) |
