| MIKETYSON | Former world heavyweight boxing champion banned in 1997 after biting an opponent's ear (4,5) |
| MIKE | Former world heavyweight boxing champion banned for biting his opponent's ear in 1997 (4) |
| TYSON | Former world heavyweight boxing champion banned for biting his opponent's ear in 1997 (5) |
| CASSINIHUYGENS | U.S.-European space mission to Saturn launched in 1997. After multiple flybys of the planet and its moons, a probe detached from the spacecraft and landed on Titan in 2005. Controllers sent the remain |
| PHEN | Fen-___ (diet drug banned in 1997) |
| MEXICANHAIRLESS | Dog unable to sit, biting an accompanying setter, cross one |
| TART | Biting an item of dessert (4) |
| DOGEATDOG | Ruthless boxer to do more than bite opponent's ear? |
| GEORGEFOREMAN | Former world heavyweight boxing champion who endorsed a line in Russell Hobbs grills (6,7) |
| MAXBAER | Former world heavyweight boxing champion whose son played Jethro Bodine in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies |
| BAER | Max ___, former world heavyweight boxing champion whose son played Jethro Bodine in The Beverly Hillbillies |
| CARNERA | Primo ___, Italian former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion nicknamed 'the Ambling Alp' |
| BOWE | Riddick, U.S. former world heavyweight boxing champion nicknamed 'Big Daddy' (4) |
| MARCIANO | Rocky, former world heavyweight boxing champion nicknamed 'The Brockton Bomber' (8) |
| VITALIKLITSCHKO | Former world heavyweight boxing champion who has been mayor of Kyiv since 2014 |
| GENETUNNEY | Former world heavyweight boxing champion whose nickname was 'The Fighting Marine' |
| CHECKMATE | In chess, the winning position in which an opponent's king is under attack and unable to escape (9) |
| FLOYD | Former world heavyweight boxing champion, -- Patterson (5) |
| EVANDER | Former world heavyweight boxing champion, -- Holyfield (7) |
| LENNOXLEWIS | Alliterative former world heavyweight boxing champion (6,5) |
