| WADEKAR | He led India to its maiden overseas series wins in West Indies and England (7) |
| PATAUDI | India won its first overseas series under his captaincy (7) |
| VIJAYHAZARE | He captained India to its first Test win and has a trophy named after him. (5,6) |
| TOMMYLASORDA | He managed the L.A. Dodgers to World Series wins in 1981 and 1988 (2 wds.) |
| JOHNNYBENCH | Oklahoma-born baseball player who helped the Cincinnati Reds to World Series wins in 1975 and '76 (6,5) |
| NOREIGA | The Windies bowler who took 9 wickets in an innings of a match that India won, leading to its first series win in the Caribbean (7) |
| LIMPKIN | Crane-like bird also called a carrao found in Florida, West Indies and South America (7) |
| BAHAMAS | A group of islands in the west Indies and a paradise for tourists |
| TITANIC | Ship captained by Edward Smith that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 (7) |
| SEIZURE | Certain to include East Indies and Zambia during capture (7) |
| RESOUND | Guest characters in a series win acclaim (7) |
| PRABHAKAR | The MoM when India won a Test in Colombo that led to its first series win in Lanka in 1993 (9) |
| DRAVID | He scored 270 in an innings in Rawalpindi, where India clinched its first series win in Pakistan (6) |
| KING | Who scored a hundred for the West Indies and also won the player of the match award in its ODI against England in Bridgetown? (4) |
| JANGOO | Who scored an unbeaten hundred on his ODI debut and won player of the match award, too, in the third ODI between West Indies and Bangladesh in Basseterre in December 2024? (6) |
| MAHEDI | Who won the player of the series award in the recent three-match T20I series between West Indies and Bangladesh? (6) |
| MENDIS | Captain in Sri Lanka's first Test series win, in 1985, Duleep ... (6) |
| TAIJUL | Who won the player of the match award in the second Test between the West Indies and Bangladesh in Kingston recently? (6) |
| AGOUTI | Long-legged rodent of the West Indies and Central and South America (6) |
| CARIBBEAN | Sea which forms part of the Atlantic Ocean between the West Indies and Central and South America (9) |
