| LOUGEHRIG | He proclaimed himself to fans "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" on July 4, 1939 |
| NGODINHDIEM | He proclaimed himself the first president of the Republic of Vietnam |
| GEHRIG | 1939 retiree who said "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" |
| LOU | "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" speaker Gehrig |
| FOUCAULT | Leon ___, French physicist who demonstrated the rotation of the earth on its axis by means of the pendulum named after him |
| DAY | One revolution of the earth on its axis |
| ADMIRALTY | Winston Churchill was returned to his post as First Lord Of The ... on September 4, 1939, a post he held at the outbreak of the previous war |
| GRAVITY | It is the force of attraction that is exerted by the earth on all the bodies lying on its surface (7) |
| ICEAGE | Glacial period with widespread surface freezing across the face of the Earth (3,3) |
| ENOS | The only chimpanzee to have orbited the Earth, on a NASA space flight in 1961 (4) |
| TRANSIT | In astronomy, the passage of a planet across the face of the Sun or the Moon (7) |
| ONUS | From the rising sun to the face of the moon, we share responsibility ... (4) |
| PERISH | Be wiped off the face of the Earth |
| OBLITERATE | Wipe off the face of the earth |
| TSAR | Ruler who was Romanov the face of the Earth? |
| VANISHES | Disappears off the face of the earth |
| SCARYCHARACTERS | Type of beings that are said to wander the earth on Halloween (5,10) |
| ICESKATER | Performer such as Torvill, Dean or Stephen Bradbury, the luckiest winner of the 2002 Winter Olympics |
| KEEPTHEHOMEFIRESBURNING | Air to fan the flames on the domestic front |
| GEHIG | Subject of the biography "Luckiest Man" |
