| BRIANNA | Decker, whose injury hurt Team USA at the 2022 Olympic Games |
| BEIJING | Site of the 2022 Olympic Games |
| ERIC | NFL star Decker whose wife Jessie James is expecting their third child |
| VULNERO | I wound, I cause injury, hurt: saucio, laedo |
| MUIRHEAD | Scots former curler who was part of the 2022 Olympic championship team, Eve _ (8) |
| OLEGUNNARSOLSKJAER | Norwegian footballer whose injury-time goal against Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League Final won the Treble for Manchester United (3,6,9) |
| NANNES | Australian pace bowler whose injury in 2011 allowed RCB to draft in Chris Gayle as a replacement. The rest, as they say, is history! |
| SUNISALEE | With Simone Biles and Hezly Rivera, one of the five Golden Girls (gold medal-winning gymnasts of Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics): 2 wds. |
| BELGIUM | Eliminator of Team USA at the 2014 World Cup |
| AJAWILSON | Las Vegas Ace who's playing for Team USA at the Paris Olympics |
| JOELEMBIID | Philadelphia 76er who's playing for Team USA at the Paris Olympics |
| NEWPORTNEWS | A port in Virginia, USA, at the mouth of the James River (7,4) |
| ROOSEVELT | President who represented the United States at the 1945 Yalta Conference |
| GHANA | Country that eliminated the United States at the last two World Cups |
| CHANT | "USA," at the Olympics |
| AMUSEMENT | Fun guys in Team US at sea (9) |
| BOXOFBISCUITS | USA at Christmas for the jammy Dodgers? (3,2,8) |
| STATAL | Possibly to do with parts of USA at last being reformed |
| SKATE | Compete like 2022 Olympic gold medallist Erin Jackson |
| SKI | Compete like 2022 Olympic gold medallist Eileen Gu |
