| ANDRELEONTALLEY | He once described himself as "the only black man among . . . white titans of style" |
| ARTHURASHE | The only Black man to win singles titles at the US Open Australian Open and Wimbledon: 2 wds. |
| ASHE | The only black man to win three Grand Slam titles. (4) |
| HIPERION | One of the twelve Titans of Greek mythology, and the father of Helios (8) |
| REVERENDSPOONER | He might have described himself as a coated knowledge professor |
| OLDFORT | Whites-only prison in which Nelson Mandela was the only black (3,4) |
| KID | "Ode to the Only Black ___ in the Class" (Clint Smith poem) |
| HILLIARD | Limner and goldsmith at the court of Elizabeth I and later James I who painted the Phoenix and the Pelican portraits and the Young Man Among Roses miniature (8) |
| GARDENS | Franklin's - - - , home of the Saints and once described as the "Champs-Elysees of Northampton" (7) |
| WCHANDY | American composer and musician who referred to himself as the 'Father of the Blues' (1,1,5) |
| STERN | Howard who described himself as King of All Media |
| SPOONER | Doctor who might have described himself as a bird-watcher (7) |
| VIOLADAVIS | The only black woman to have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony (5,5) |
| MEME | Word for a unit of cultural inheritance originally used by Richard Dawkins to de-emphasise the gene as the only unit of natural selection (4) |
| YESTERDAY | Film starring Himesh Patel as the only person in the world who remembers the Beatles |
| AGNES | French film director Varda, whom Martin Scorsese once described as "one of the gods of cinema" |
| OZZIENELSON | He played himself as the dad on his show with wife Harriet: 2 wds. |
| DARIO | Director who cast himself as the murderer's gloved hands in all of his giallo films, ... Argento |
| SELFPORTRAITURE | In which the artist may see himself as the model sitter (4-11) |
| OCHS | Phil who described himself as a "singing journalist" |
