| BERGER | Gerhard ...... , winner of the 1997 F1 German GP (6) |
| VILLENEUVE | Jacques ?, 1997 F1 World Drivers' Championship winner |
| DENVER | Winner of the 1997 and 1998 Super Bowls |
| WEBBER | Mark ___, Australian F1 driver who won the 2009 German GP (6) |
| ARNOUX | Rene, F1 motor racing driver who won the 1983 German GP (6) |
| DEAVER | Jeffrey, author of the 1997 novel The Bone Collector (6) |
| DOMAGK | Gerhard --, German bacteriologist (1895-1964) (6) |
| ICKX | Jacky .... , Belgian driver; 1972 F1 German GP, 1983 Paris-Dakar Rally and 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981 and 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (4) |
| MOSS | Stirling .... , 1961 F1 German GP winner (4) |
| YELLOW | Bright colour of the 1997 Toyota Paseo Galliano edition (6) |
| FOSSEY | Subject of the 1997 biography "Woman in the Mists" |
| ANGELA | Successor of Helmut and Gerhard |
| HELMUT | Kohl succeeded as chancellor by Gerhard Schroder |
| LEANNRIMES | Winner of the 1997 Best New Artist Grammy (or homophonically, the starts of this puzzle's theme entries) |
| STRUVER | German golfer; winner of the 1997 Sun Microsystems Dutch Open and 1998 Canon European Masters tournaments (7) |
| SVEN | German golfer; winner of the 1997 Sun Microsystems Dutch Open and 1998 Canon European Masters tournaments (4) |
| TITANIC | Winner of the 1997 Oscar for Best Picture. (7) |
| MARSALIS | Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music, trumpet player Wynton ... |
| ROY | Arundhati ___, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize |
| KENDOHERTY | Winner of the 1997 World Snooker Championship (3,7) |
