| SAMALLARDYCE | Manager of Crystal Palace from December 2016 who holds the record for the shortest tenure as England football manager |
| CHICKEN | 2025 Jack Black track that broke the record for the shortest song ever to make the UK Top 40 Chart (6,4,7) |
| STEVESLAVA | 2025 Jack Black track that broke the record for the shortest song ever to make the UK Top 40 Chart (6,4,7) |
| BARNIER | Michel ___, European Chief Negotiator for the United Kingdom Exiting the European Union from December 2016 |
| HARRISON | William Henry - - -, ninth president of the US, the first president to die in office and the president with the shortest tenure (8) |
| TRUSS | Brit PM with the shortest tenure ever |
| HODGSON | Former footballer who recently returned as the manager of Crystal Palace, Roy _ (7) |
| GLASNER | Oliver, Austrian coach who became manager of Crystal Palace FC in 2024 (7) |
| PARDEW | Manager who took Crystal Palace to the FA Cup final in May 2016 and was sacked in December 2016 (6) |
| ALLISON | Fedora-wearing Malcolm ____ was a well-known manager of Crystal Palace despite two successive relegations |
| ROBERTVAUGHN | Actor who died in December 2016, the last surviving member of the original Magnificent Seven in the 1960 film |
| VIEIRA | Patrick __, manager of Crystal Palace (6) |
| OLIVER | ____ Glasner, Austrian manager of Crystal Palace FC (6) |
| PAPI | Red Sox retiree of 2016 who was given a gift of the dugout phone that he destroyed in 2013 by the Orioles |
| CABAYE | Yohan, France midfielder at Newcastle United from 2011-14 and Crystal Palace from 2015-18 (6) |
| LEE | ... Chung-yong, South Korea midfielder at Bolton Wanderers from 2009-15 and Crystal Palace from 201518 (3) |
| MANDANDA | Steve _, 2008-2022 France goalkeeper at Crystal Palace from 2016-2017 between spells at Marseille (8) |
| SZELL | George ___, Hungarian-born American conductor and composer noted for his long tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra |
| UNITED | British soccer drama following Brian Clough's ill-fated tenure as football manager of Leeds United in 1974, The Damned - (6) |
| HARMATTAN | Dry dusty wind from the Sahara that blows towards the coast of West Africa from December to February (9) |
