| SINDY | Doll that was the best selling toy in the UK in 1968 and 1970 (5) |
| KIDSISTER | '80s doll that was the girl version of My Buddy |
| HESS | Gas company selling toy trucks |
| SPARE | Royal memoir that was the best-selling nonfiction book of 2023 |
| RIVEN | Sequel to the computer game Myst, it was the best-selling game of 1997 |
| WORDS | Hit for the Bee Gees in 1968 and Boyzone in 1996 (5) |
| ALBUM | "30" was the best-selling one of '21 |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| CATCH | The tricky one in Joseph Heller's book was, the best there is, the twenty-second one |
| MEADE | Richard, British equestrian who won three Olympic gold medals in 1968 and 1972 (5) |
| STEED | 'Through all the wild Border his ___ was the best' (Scott) (5) |
| THEBOYISMINE | R&B duet that was the best-selling song in the US in 1998: 4 wds. |
| TIMES | "It was the best of ___, it was the worst of ___" |
| THEYD | John Mayer "I was a killer, was the best ___ ever seen" |
| SMART | *"Get ___," Outstanding Comedy Series winer in 1968 and 69 |
| UNCUT | Was the best thing before sliced bread? (5) |
| ATTIC | Toys in the -----, 1975 Aerosmith album (5) |
| DOZY | Dave Dee, ___, Beaky, Mick & Tich, group that topped the singles chart in the UK in 1968 with The Legend of Xanadu |
| SABREDANCE | Movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's 1942 ballet Gayane that gave Love Sculpture a hit single in the UK in 1968 |
| DUSTY | Like toys in the attic |
