| IANBOTHAM | English ex-cricketing all-rounder nominated for a peerage in July 2020 (3,6) |
| ANDREWFLINTOFF | English ex-cricketing all-rounder, now a Top Gear presenter (6,8) |
| CLAIREFOX | Former Revolutionary Communist Party member, later a Brexit Party MEP, recently nominated for a peerage |
| LEIGHTON | First painter to be given a peerage in 1896 |
| NASA | Org. that launched the Perseverance rover in July 2020 |
| RAHM | In July 2020 he became World No.1 golfer (4) |
| FOLKLORE | Taylor Swift album released in July, 2020 |
| LEEBOWYER | English ex-midfielder who was appointed Birmingham City manager in 2021 (3,6) |
| ARMSTRONG | Tyneside industrialist raised to the peerage in 1887 who had his rural retreat at Cragside near Rothbury (9) |
| BENIGHTED | Ignorant reportedly get a peerage (9) |
| STOKES | Ben, cricketing all-rounder born in Christchurch in New Zealand in 1991 (6) |
| RHODES | Wilfred, Yorkshire cricketing all-rounder born in 1877 (6) |
| HADLEE | Richard ___, New Zealand cricketing all-rounder born in 1951 (6) |
| LAUDABLE | Praiseworthy, suggestedly fit for a peerage? (8) |
| TITLE | Heading for a peerage or knighthood maybe? (5) |
| ADKINS | Sydney jockey who broke his leg in a July, 2020 fall, Andrew ... (6) |
| KAPILDEV | Indian cricketing all-rounder (5,3) |
| TANNI | --- Grey-Thompson, former Paralympic athlete granted a life peerage in 2010 |
| CROUCH | Peter, English ex-striker with 42 caps who hosts a football podcast that begun in 2018 (6) |
| MONYE | Ugo, English ex-rugby union player who became a captain on Question of Sport in 2021 (5) |
