| EDERLE | Gertrude who swam the English Channel in 1926 |
| BLERIOT | French aviator and inventor who was the first person to fly the English Channel, in 1909 (7) |
| LOUISBLERIOT | French airman who made the first flight across the English Channel in 1909 (5,7) |
| LEANDER | In Greek mythology, the lover of Hero who swam the Hellespont nightly to see her (7) |
| SIRCHRISTOPHERCOCKERELL | Engineer whose SR-N1 hovercraft first crossed the English Channel in 1959 |
| MANCHE | La ___ , the English Channel in French (6) |
| WEBB | First recorded person to swim the English Channel, in 1875 (4) |
| BYRON | Poet who swam the Hellespont |
| GRAEME | Football legend who swam part of the English Channel for charity (6,7) |
| SOUNESS | Football legend who swam part of the English Channel for charity (6,7) |
| STEIN | Gertrude who wrote "We are always the same age inside" |
| JEKYLL | Plantswoman, Gertrude, who is immortalised as a pink English rose (6) |
| OTTO | Kristin who swam to gold at the 1988 Olympics |
| TORRES | Dara who swam in five Olympics |
| STEPHANIERICE | Australian who swam to three Olympic golds in 2008 |
| NYAD | Diana who swam from Cuba to Florida in 2013 at age 64 |
| SUSIE | Australian who swam from Jamaica to Cuba in 1999, ... Maroney |
| ABYDOS | Home of Leander, who regularly swam the Hellespont to visit Hero at Sestos (6) |
| NIGHTLY | How Leander swam the Hellespont |
| BEASLEY | Feminist Gertrude who wrote "My First Thirty Years" |
