| RETTON | Mary Lou ......, women's gymnastics Olympic champion in 1984 (6) |
| LATYNINA | Larisa ........, twotime overall women's gymnastics Olympic champion (8) |
| NASTIA | 2008 gymnastics Olympic champ Liukin |
| KERRI | With 37-Across 1996 US gymnastics Olympic gold medalist who wrote the memoir Landing on My Feet |
| BENITA | Fitzgerald-Brown, women's 100 metres hurdles Olympic champion in 1984 (6) |
| BLYTON | Author who wrote of the boarding school adventures of Darrell, Emily, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and other girls in her Malory Towers books (6) |
| UNEVEN | Women's gymnastics apparatus, ... bars |
| STRIDE | Jazz piano style played by Fats Waller and Mary Lou Williams |
| TESSA | Sanderson, women's javelin Olympic champion in 1984 (5) |
| DOINA | Melinte, women's 800 metres Olympic champion in 1984 (5) |
| SAID | ___Aouita, men's 5000 metres Olympic champion in 1984 (4) |
| NUNN | Glynis ...., Olympic heptathlon champion in 1984 (4) |
| JOANBENOIT | The first female Olympic marathon champion, in 1984 |
| BIGGS | Tyrell ..., first-ever Olympic super-heavyweight boxing champion in 1984 (5) |
| PAGE | Greg .... , boxer who became WBA world heavyweight champion in 1984 (4) |
| NASL | The Chicago Sting was its last champion in 1984: Abbr. |
| UNEVENBARS | Apparatus used in women's gymnastics (6,4) |
| TEAMUSA | Olympic powerhouse in women's gymnastics |
| OLGA | First name in women's gymnastics |
| BEAM | Balance ___, piece of apparatus in women's gymnastics (4) |
