| HALEBOPP | Bright comet which passed Earth in 1997 and was visible for 18 months (4-4) |
| BOPP | Hale-___ is the name of an unusually bright comet which was visible from Earth in 1997. (4) |
| TEETHES | A human infant usually ____ for 18 months or more |
| HERSCHEL | German-born British astronomer whose discovery of what he believed to be a comet, which he named after George III, was later identified as a planet and renamed Uranus (8) |
| EONS | Queen's person in general with energy prominently visible for long periods |
| EASYTOSEE | Very visible for eyes. Toes a worry! (4,2,3) |
| SEEN | Was visible |
| OORTCLOUD | Hypothetical spherical area of comets which may lie nearly a light-year from the sun |
| MARTINEZ | Pitcher Pedro who won the NL Cy Young Award in 1997, and the AL Cy Young Award in 1999 and 2000 |
| MELVILLE | He spent 18 months working on a whaling ship |
| ERNIEELS | South African golfer who won the US Open in 1994 and 1997 and the British Open in 2002 |
| ROSEANNE | US sitcom about the Conner family that ran 1988-1997 and is set for a revival in 2018 (8) |
| DIMATTEO | Roberto, Italian ex-midfielder who scored for Chelsea FC in the 1997 and 2000 FA Cup finals (2,6) |
| GOLDFINGER | James Bond's famed Aston Martin, which he drove in this 1964 film, was stolen from a Florida airport hangar in 1997 and is now rumored to be somewhere in the Middle East |
| UREWERATRIPTYCH | Colin McCahon mural which was commissioned for the Waikaremoana Visitor Centre, stolen in 1997 and retumed in 1998 (7,8) |
| TENNESSEE | and 6dn, NFL team that played their home games in Memphis and Nashville in 1997 and 1998 respectively |
| TENNESSEEOILERS | and 6dn, NFL team that played their home games in Memphis and Nashville in 1997 and 1998 respectively |
| UTAHJAZZ | NBA team; 1997 and 1998 Western Conference winners (4.4) |
| BILBAO | Canadian architect Frank Gehry is the designer of the Guggenheim Museum (which opened in 1997) and is located in this city in Spain |
| OILERS | NFL team that played their home games in Memphis and Nashville in 1997 and 1998 respectively (9,6) |
