| KAMALAHARRIS | Joint winner of Time's Person of the Year for 2020 |
| ELON | First name of Time's 2021 Person of the Year |
| WISDOM | Nynaeve's title in "The Wheel of Time" |
| HARRIS | Co-winner of Time's Person of the Year for 2020 |
| CHEQUER | Dictator’s person vetting design of squares |
| YARDMAN | (U.S.) Person who does various outdoor jobs (7) |
| OED | Lexicon that had no single word of the year for 2020 (Abbr.) |
| SECOMANE | Gymnast on Time's August 2, 1976, cover with the headline "She's perfect" |
| COMANECI | Gymnast on Time's August 2, 1976, cover with the headline "She's perfect" |
| AMIS | "Time's Arrow" novelist Martin |
| THETESTAMENTS | Sequel to Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale; joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize (3,10) |
| PELE | Joint winner of FIFA's Player of the Century award in 2000 |
| DIEGOMARNA | Joint winner of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award |
| DAVIDE | _ Sanclimenti, the joint winner of this year's Love Island (6) |
| SANAM | The joint winner of this year's Love Island, _ Harrinanan (5) |
| HARDING | The joint winner of this year's Love Island, Jess _ (7) |
| MARADONA | Diego ___, one of two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award |
| ATWOOD | Margaret ---, Canadian author who was joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her novel The Testaments (6) |
| JOHNMACLEOD | Scottish scientist; joint winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his part in discovering insulin (4,7) |
| LILL | John, British pianist who was a joint winner of the 1970 International Tchaikovsky competition (4) |
