| SUGARRAY | First names of boxers Robinson and Leonard, middleweight world champions in the 1940s and 1980s (5,3) |
| LAMOTTA | Rival of boxer Robinson |
| ZHANIBEKALIMKHANULY | Dual middleweight world champion during 2024. (8,11) |
| ALI | Last name of boxers Muhammad and Laila |
| ROCKY | _ Graziano, American boxer who was the middleweight world boxing champion (5) |
| SUNNYGTI | Nissan hot hatch from the 1980s (5,3) |
| ASTRAGTE | Vauxhall hot hatch from the 1980s (5,3) |
| SRR | Monogram for boxer Robinson |
| PORTLAND | Oregon city, noted as a centre for organised crime in the 1940s and '50s and of counterculture in the 1960s and '70s (8) |
| EVELYN | One of the first names of the author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited |
| THEALBERTHALL | With a similar name to London's iconic venue, this was the main place for entertainment in Australia's capital city in the 1940s and 50s (3,6,4) |
| RANK | J Arthur ___, British industrialist whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s |
| NIVEN | David -----, suave British actor in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s (5) |
| JIVE | Lively style of dance popular in the 1940s and 1950s (4) |
| HOGAN | Ben _, American golfer who won nine majors in the 1940s and '50s (5) |
| LEONARD | One of the world's leading professional boxing champions in the 1970s and 80s, Sugar Ray ... |
| REGATTA | Event where you may find Lydia Lazarov and Zephania Carmel who in 1969 became Israel's first World Champions in any sport |
| LOUISARTHURCHARLES | First names of the third child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (5,6,7) |
| BOGART | Hollywood screen icon of the 1940s and 1950s, his many film credits included "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen" (6) |
| GUYBURGESS | A member of the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940s and 1950s (3,7) |
