| NICKLAUS | Golfer who won 18 Major championships between 1962 and 1986 (8) |
| MARTINA | Czech-American former tennis player who won 18 major singles titles, _ Navratilova (7) |
| JOCKSTEIN | Scottish football player and manager who led Celtic to nine successive Scottish League championships between 1966 and 1974 (4,5) |
| VETTEL | Sebastian ___, German motor racing driver who won four consecutive Formula One World Drivers' Championships between 2010 and 2013 (6) |
| SUSSEX | The oldest of the eighteen major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure |
| EVERT | Winner of 18 majors |
| JORDAN | With 33-Across, 21-year-old golfer who won 18-Across last weekend |
| TIGERWOODS | Golfer who won 18-Across in 1997, also as a 21-year-old: 2 wds. |
| RUGBY | Contested at the Six Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France, one of the sports or games that originated in the UK (5) |
| LATYNINA | Larisa ___, gymnast who won 18 Olympic medals in the 1950s and 1960s (8) |
| MARINER | The name for any of a series of ten uncrewed U.S. space probes sent to the vicinities of Venus, Mars, and Mercury between 1962 and 1973. The first was launched July 22, 1962, but was destroyed shortly |
| GARYSPRAKE | Welsh international goalkeeper who played 381 games for Leeds United between 1962 and 1973 |
| LAW | Denis ___, Scottish footballer who scored 237 goals for Manchester United between 1962 and 1973 (3) |
| GREGMADDUX | Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs pitcher who won 18 Gold Gloves: 2 wds. |
| MGB | British sports car built between 1962 and 1980 (3) |
| VITESSE | Triumph model, produced between 1962 and 1971, succeeded by the Dolomite (7) |
| NAVRATILOVA | Tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles (7,11) |
| MARTINANAVRATILOVA | Tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles |
| AMYALCOTT | American golfer who won five major championships and 29 LPGA tour events (3,6) |
| ADAMDALGLIESH | Poetry-writing detective created by English author P.D. James, featured in 14 novels between 1962 and 2008 (4,9) |
