| CAPABLANCA | Jose, Cuban chess world champion 1921-7 (10) |
| NAPOLES | Jose, Cuban boxer who first became undisputed world welterweight champion in 1969 (7) |
| LEGRA | Jose ....., Cuban-born boxer who won the WBC world featherweight champion in 1968 (5) |
| SPASSKY | Boris --, chess world champion in 1969 (7) |
| KARPOV | Anatoly _; chess world champion for 10 years (6) |
| FISCHER | Bobby ----, US chess world champion in 1970s (7) |
| EMANUEL | -- Lasker, World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921 (7) |
| GRAMSCI | Antonio ___, a founder of the Italian Communist Party in 1921 (7) |
| WOODROW | -- Wilson, US president between 1913 and 1921 (7) |
| HARDING | Warren G. ___, Republican US president who succeeded Woodrow Wilson in 1921 (7) |
| LAROCHE | Guy, French fashion designer born in 1921 (7) |
| STEVENS | Wallace, American modernist poet who wrote "The Snow Man", first published in 1921 (7) |
| PHYSICS | Scientific field in which Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 (7) |
| ICELAND | Country which fought a war with Britain before becoming independent in 1921 (7) |
| JULESRIMET | 1921-54 FIFA president and the World Cup trophy's old name (5,5) |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author of works including The Turn (novel, 1902) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (play, (1921); Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) (10) |
| MIKEMARINO | English professional wrestler in the World of Sport era born Michael Harrison in 1921 |
| SEALULLABY | 1921 poem by Elinor Wylie |
| ALICEADAMS | 1921 Booth Tarkington novel in our library |
| GREATWHITE | *'Jaws' menace (1910-1921) |