| FOSBURY | In 1968, who won the high jump with the revolutionary ___ Flop named after him? (surname only) |
| CHALMERS | Craig, fly-half born in 1968 who won 60 caps for Scotland (8) |
| LENNON | The Beatle who had an airport named after him (surname) (6) |
| ACHED | Attorney returned with the revolutionary_ That hurt! (5) |
| LONGWINDED | Type of jump with the breeze gets the newspaper boss or a verbose commentator (10) |
| EDSEL | Ford flop named for Henry Ford's son |
| STIRRUP | On a horse, you put your foot in it when you agitate with the revolutionary leader (7) |
| WAR | The Revolutionary ___ |
| BOLT | At the 2016 Olympics, who won both the 100-metre and 200-metre races for the third consecutive Olympic games, becoming the first to achieve that feat? (surname only) |
| BROOKES | Which English educator tried to revive the Olympic Games, ultimately successfully holding the British Olympiad in 1866? (surname only) |
| TEMER | Who opened the 2016 Games in Rio? (surname only) |
| ROOSEVELT | U.S. president who won the Prize in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese war (surname only) |
| CORI | First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (surname only) |
| XIMENES | Under what pseudonym did Macnutt publish his crosswords in The Observer, his fans included the writer Colin Dexter, who named Morse's old inspector after him? (7) |
| ASHRAFUL | Bangladesh's player of the match in their upset win over West Indies in the group stage (surname only) |
| ZEPPELIN | Which German invented an aircraft in 1900, which was named after him? (8) |
| HERTZ | Founder of the Yellow Cab Company in Chicago; his name lives on as a popular car rental company in the U.S. (surname only) |
| TAUFEL | Umpire (surname only) who officiated in the final with Mark Benson |
| OBAMA | U.S. President who won the Peace Prize in 2009 (surname only) |
| BUSH | The artist (surname only) behind "Wuthering Heights" the song, released in 1978 and inspired by Emily Bronte's novel (4) |
