| EBIHARA | Japanese golfer who won European Senior Tour Order of Merit in 2002 (7) |
| BEST | Irish player who won European Footballer of the Year in 1968 (4) |
| ARTDECO | Style displayed by a retired European senior army man (3,4) |
| JOHNHUDSON | European SENIOR PGA TOUR player who aced two holes in a row during a 1971 tournament |
| SIMONE | Marco won European Cup & Champions League medals with AC Milan (6) |
| PORTUGAL | Country where England won European Champs 2022 (8) |
| SHIGEKI | ___ Maruyama, Japanese golfer who won the 2001 Greater Milwaukee Open in a play-off against Charles Howell III |
| ERNIEELS | Winner of the European Tour's Order of Merit in 2003 and 2004 (5,8) |
| HATAOKA | Japanese golfer who lost play-off for Women's US Open last year (7) |
| INTERIM | There's an intervening period of merit in adapting to it (7) |
| MONTGOMERIE | Colin ___, Scottish golfer who has won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles |
| COLIN | .-.. Montgomerie. Scottish golfer who has won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles (5) |
| LEEWESTWOOD | British golfer who was European Tour Order of Merit winner in 2000, ending Colin Montgomerie's seven-year reign |
| LAURA | Golfer Davies, seven-time Ladies European Tour Order of Merit awardee |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| ALLEN | Din from landline confuses 2016 Ladies' European Tour Order of Merit winner (5) |
| ISAO | Aoki, Japanese golfer who won the 1983 European Open(4) |
| SHIBUNO | Hinako, Japanese golfer, 2019 Women's British Open winner (7) |
| RONAN | ..... Rafferty, winner of European golf's Order of Merit in 1989 (5) |
| LEGION | ____ of Honour, highest order of merit in France, established in 1802 (6) |
