| NOMA | Copenhagen-based restaurant regularly voted the world's best (4) |
| JEKYLL | Visionary British artist-gardener whose pastel palette shifted from her canvas to cottage border and whose namesake scented pink English rose was voted the world's favourite (6) |
| ELLE | Which is the world's best-selling fashion magazine? (4) |
| MINI | Car voted the second most influential of the 20th century, after the Model T (4) |
| YOGI | Baseball catcher voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League three times in the 1950s (4,5) |
| BAHT | Official currency of Thailand which was also the world's best performing currency in 2018 |
| IVEY | Phil, widely considered to be the world's best all-around pro poker player |
| JIMI | Hendrix voted the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone |
| BACH | Who was voted the "Greatest Composer of All Time," in a 2019 BBC poll |
| NESS | World's best known loch |
| OREO | World's best selling cookie |
| DION | World's best-selling contemporary female artist of all time, per Billboard magazine |
| BOSS | World's Best ___ (manager's mug message perhaps) |
| IPAD | World's best-selling tablet computer |
| NEON | Gas in a "World's Best Cup of Coffee" sign |
| ANDTHENTHEREWERENONE | The world's best-selling mystery novel written by Agatha Christie in 1939 under a different title (3,4,5,4,4) |
| FRENCHLAUNDRY | The ___ celebrity chef Thomas Keller's California-based restaurant that received the three-star rating from the Michelin Guide in 2006: 2 wds. |
| NEWCOKE | The 1985 ill-advised reformulated version of the world's best selling soft drink, which was soon dropped for the Classic version |
| ELBULLI | Name what is said to be the world's best restaurant (2,5) |
| SINGININTHERAIN | Voted the best musical ever made, it had Gene Kelly tapping in the downpour, Debbie Reynolds overturning the sofa and Donald O'Connor climbing walls (6',2,3,4) |
