| DOTT | Graeme ...., 2006 world snooker champion (4) |
| GUUS | Coached Socceroos to 2006 World Cup, - Hiddink (4) |
| TOGO | CAF nation; 2006 World Cup debutants (4) |
| FRED | 1948, 1949 and 1951 world snooker champion (4,5) |
| MARK | 2000 and 2003 world snooker champion (4,8) |
| NEIL | Melbourne's 2010 world snooker champion, ... Robertson (4) |
| JUDD | 2019 world snooker champion, ... Trump (4) |
| ZHAO | ___ Xintong is the current World Snooker Champion. (4) |
| WAGS | This acronym came to prominence during the 2006 World Cup as shorthand for "footballers" partners" (4) |
| CUBA | 2006 World Baseball Classic finalist |
| DRAW | Kind of match result that was enough to get Australia through to the sudden-death round of the 2006 World Cup |
| TROYBAYLESS | 2001 and 2006 World Superbike champion (4,7) |
| GRAEMEDOTT | Scot who was World Snooker Champion in 2006 (6,4) |
| ITALIA | 2006 World Cup champion, to native fans |
| KIMMIE | 2006 world figure skating champion Meissner |
| GRAEME | ____ Dott, snooker player who won the 2006 World Championship (6) |
| MARKVIDUKA | 2006 World Cup Socceroos captain (4,6) |
| ONYEE | Ng -, 2015, 2017 and 2018 Women's World Snooker Champion beaten by Alan McManus in the 2019 World Snooker Championship qualifiers (2-3) |
| ZHAOXINTONG | Chinese snooker player; the first Asian World Snooker Champion (4,7) |
| MARKSELBY | 2014 world snooker champion (4,5) |
