| YUNG | Kyung ****-lee inaugural champ in the lightest |
| FLYWEIGHT | Boxer in the lightest category (9) |
| ASPEN | Tree with leaves that flutter in the lightest wind |
| LENDL | Three-time U.S. Open champ in the 1980s |
| PET | Champ in the White House, e.g. |
| BILLIEJEANKING | Six- time Wimbledon singles champ in the ' 60s and ' 70s |
| ZATOPEK | Marathon champ in the '52 Olympics |
| ANATOLYALEXANDROV | Ex-WBO champ in the '90s, from Russia. (7,10) |
| MT | Initials of late two-time WBA welterweight champ in the late 80's. (1,1) |
| KAON | In particle physics, the name of the lightest strange meson (4) |
| LAH | CNN's Tokyo reporter Kyung __ |
| HEE | Seoul's Kyung ___ University |
| PROSEPOEMS | Some genre-blending pieces of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictee" |
| CHA | Avant-garde writer Theresa Hak Kyung ___ |
| HAK | Artist Theresa ___ Kyung Cha |
| RENA | _ "Rusty Glickman" Kanokogi organized the first Women's World Judo Champs in 1980, paving the way for the first-ever Olympic medal won by an Israeli (Judoka Yael Arad in 1992) |
| ELFOWLS | Sparrow-sized birds in the Strigiformes order, the lightest of all its species (3,4) |
| HYDROGEN | Occurring with oxygen in water, the lightest of all the chemical elements, atomic number one (8) |
| ELFOWL | The bird Micrathene whitneyi that is the lightest member of the family Strigidae |
| ELECTRONS | Found in the nuclei of all atoms and discovered by J. J. Thomson, the lightest stable subatomic particles known (9) |