| SEATTLEMARINERS | Ken Griffey Jr. hit a home run for this team on August 30, 1990; the previous batter, Ken Griffey Sr., had also just hit one |
| EXMARINER | Ken Griffey Sr. is one |
| HANKAARON | He hit a home run for the NL in the 1972 All-Star Game |
| CURTGOWDY | "The ball is going and it is gone! A home run for Ted Williams in his last time at bat in the major leagues" |
| BOSTONBRUINS | Willie O'Ree made his NHL debut with this team on January 18th, 1958 in a 3-0 win over the Canadiens at the Montreal Forum: 2 wds. |
| JOAO | Identify the first name of this Portuguese footballer, who scored a hat-trick for PSG in the Ligue 1 match versus Toulouse on August 30, 2025. (4) |
| ICEHOCKEY | In the 2002 Winter Olympics Canada took the gold for this team rink sport, fifty years to the day from the nation's previous victory (the women's team won gold too!) (3,6) |
| COMEDY | The ___ of Errors, Shakespeare's shortest play; a rare performance takes place at Hare Hill Hall, Over Alderley on August 30 (6) |
| SOSA | First batter to hit a home run against every Major League Baseball team |
| THEKID | A nickname for baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr., owing to his father also having been a standout player |
| KUALA | The last of Britain's SE Asian colonies, Malaya, celebrated independence in ... Lumpur on August 30, |
| OAKLANDAS | There's a rare blue moon on Oct. 31; Blue Moon Odom was a pitcher for this team when it won the 1972, 1973, and 1974 World Series |
| ANDRUWJONES | Youngest person to hit a home run in a World Series |
| SWISHER | Yankee Nick who hit a home run in the 2009 World Series |
| BILLMAZSKI | He hit a home run to end the 1960 World Series |
| TONYOLIVA | Twins legend who was the first DH to hit a home run |
| ATLANTABRAVES | Dale Murphy, Phil Niekro, and Eddie Mathews played for this team for a combined total of 47 years |
| ELEPHANT | In 1990, the remains of a Steppe Mammoth, Mammuthus Trogontherii, the largest species of ... ever to have lived, were discovered at West Runton (8) |
| SWAT | Hit a home run |
| TRIPLED | almost hit a home run |
