| EMMETT | Gavin, just completed his first year as lead MotoGP commentator for BT Sport. (6) |
| SUZI | _ Perry, former host of The Gadget Show who now covers MotoGP for BT Sport (4) |
| NEMEA | Where Hercules completed his first labor |
| LEGARD | Jonathan ___, lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One TV coverage in 2009 and 2010 |
| LYNSEY | _ Hipgrave, BT Sport presenter (6) |
| THEHAJ | Leon Uris novel whose protagonist Ibrahim completed his pilgrimage to Mecca |
| COHOST | Color commentator, for example |
| LOVETT | Pattie ___-Reid, Chief Financial Commentator for CTV News |
| GARCIA | Golfer who won the 2017 US Masters, his first major, after 18 years as a professional (6) |
| OSMIUM | Element that is twice as dense as lead |
| POTTER | Forest of Dean-born television playwright whose BBC drama The Singing Detective starred Michael Gambon as lead role Philip Marlow (6) |
| LAWSON | Charles -, actor who returned to Coronation Street this year as Jim Mcdonald (6) |
| SYRIAN | Welsh woman accepts year as resident in Damascus, say (6) |
| SEASON | Each one of the four natural divisions of the year, as portrayed by Vivaldi (6) |
| ANGLIA | Which Ford arrived in the same year as both the Mini and Triumph Herald? (6) |
| SAGELY | Stallone to conceal his 72 years as wise man? (6) |
| SCILLY | Isles of -; specialising in seasonal fresh flowers, archipelago off the Cornish coast whose wildlife trust pays the Duchy of Cornwall one daffodil per year as rent (6) |
| LEEWAY | Director Spike with a year as latitude (6) |
| SILENT | Refusing to communicate as lead character in Psycho? |
| ELATED | Very pleased as lead note altered |
