| VALIMAKI | Finn who won last year's Oman Open (8) |
| NURMI | "Flying Finn" who won nine Olympic gold medals (5) |
| PAAVONURMI | Middle distance runner, nicknamed 'the Flying Finn', who won nine Olympic gold medals and set 22 world records (5,5) |
| KENYA | Open won last year by Guido Migliozzi (5) |
| CHINA | Open won last year by Zhang Huilin (5) |
| LOGIE | Australian television award, won last year by Sam Neill (5) |
| EDBERG | Won last Australian Open men's singles title decided at Kooyong 1987 (6) |
| TANNER | B&B'S NOVLAN (FINN) WHO MIGHT BE HIRED TO WORK WITH ANIMAL HIDES |
| FRENCHOPEN | Tennis tournament won last month for the 12th time by Rafael Nadal (2 wds.) |
| UPHOLDER | Last year's champion starts off as supporter (8) |
| FLETCHER | Last year's I'm A Celebrity... winner, Giovanna - - - (8) |
| DEFENDER | Last year's winner in Paris of fire guard (8) |
| LUKELIST | Gospel writer has tip for last year's Farmers Insurance Open winner (4,4) |
| FEARLESS | 2006 film based on the life of a martial artist in the last years of the Qing dynasty |
| TAMPABAY | *Home of last year's Super Bowl winners |
| BULLDOGS | Last year's runner-up from Washington |
| OLDFOGEY | Perhaps last year's weather upset you before, as one averse to change (3,5) |
| GAUGUIN | French artist who spent the last years of his life on the Marquesas Islands; his paintings include V |
| PROUST | French author who spent his last years as an invalid recluse in a cork-lined room |
| HOWARDHUGHES | US industrialist, aviator and film producer who became a total recluse in the last years of his life (6,6) |
