| ALFETTA | Italian saloon introduced in 1972 (7) |
| ENSIGN | Standard Motor Company saloon introduced in 1957 (6) |
| GRANADA | Executive Ford introduced in 1972 (7) |
| DIGEM | Honey Smacks frog mascot introduced in 1972 |
| WITHOUT | ___ You, chart- topper for Nilsson in 1972 and Mariah Carey in 1994 (7) |
| WALLACE | George ?, governor of Alabama, survivor of an assassination attempt in 1972, who died in 1998 (7) |
| NASTASE | Ilie ___ , Romanian tennis player who won the US Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973 (7) |
| MANAGUA | Capital city in Central America (pop 1 million), hit by a major earthquake in 1972 (7) |
| OKINAWA | Which Japanese island captured in WWII was returned in 1972? (7) |
| ISRAELI | Members of which Olympic team were killed by Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972? (7) |
| POPCORN | Instrumental hit for Hot Butter in 1972 (7) |
| SAPPORO | Japanese city that hosted the Winter Olympics in 1972 (7) |
| ROBERTO | Derby winner in 1972 (7) |
| BARCLAY | Steve ___, Conservative politician born in 1972 (7) |
| HARVEST | Fourth studio album by Neil Young, released in 1972 (7) |
| LOUELLA | Mrs. Parsons, Hollywood gossip columnist who died in 1972 (7) |
| PIONEER | ? 10, US spacecraft launched in 1972 that made the first fly-by of Jupiter (7) |
| HIGGINS | Alex ---, Northern Irish snooker player who was World Champion in 1972 and 1982 (7) |
| MAURICE | French singer and film actor who died in 1972 (7,9) |
| FISCHER | Bobby ---, American chess grandmaster who took the World Chess Championship title from Boris Spassky in 1972 (7) |
