| YAIRLAPID | Israeli politician who served in 2022 as the country's 14th prime minister (4,5) |
| SHAMIR | Yitzhak, Israeli politician who served twice as prime minister (6) |
| ODDSOCKS | Girls Aloud's Kimberly Walsh performed on The Masked Dancer in 2022 as this character (3,5) |
| OMICRON | This M-W list word surged in January 2022 as a powerful new Covid variant: "The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet" |
| ROMAN | One who would write 2022 as MMXXII |
| IMRANKHAN | Former Pakistan cricket captain, elected as the country's president in July |
| SHARANSKY | Natan ********* , Israeli politician and human rights activist who won the 2020 Genesis Prize (9) |
| DREWCAREY | "The Price Is Right" host who served in the Marine Corps: 2 wds. |
| BEAARTHUR | "The Golden Girls" star who served in the Marine Corps: 2 wds. |
| YOGIBERRA | Hall of Fame Yankees catcher who served in the Navy during WWII: 2 wds. |
| LEEMARVIN | "Cat Ballou" star who served in the Marine Corps: 2 wds. |
| JIMLEHRER | "PBS NewsHour" anchor who served in the Marine Corps: 2 wds. |
| LARRYDOBY | Hall of Fame Indians center fielder who served in the Navy during WWII: 2 wds. |
| ROALDDAHL | British author, 1916-1990, who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II (5,4) |
| NETANYAHU | Israeli politician to haunt any English settlement (9) |
| WILDGEESE | Name given to Irish soldiers who served in continental European armies from the 17th Century on. (4,5) |
| DESERTRAT | Nickname for a soldier who served in an heroic WWII North African division (6,3) |
| MEIR | Golda ___ (1898 - 1978), Russian-born Israeli politician who was Prime Minister (1969 -74) (4) |
| BEILIN | Yossi ****** Israeli politician who negotiated the Oslo Accords of the 1990s (6) |
| AMIRPERETZ | Israeli politician who founded his own party, One Nation, in 1999 (4,6) |
