| SYED | Matthew ---, table-tennis champion, now a Times and Sunday Times columnist |
| ATTAIN | Get a Times and an Independent in the centre |
| PIENAAR | John ---, ex-BBC journalist, now a Times Radio host |
| MURDOCH | Businessman and publisher who bought Britain's Times and Sunday Times in 1981 (7) |
| SAINTANDREWS | First non-Oxbridge university to be ranked first in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide (2022 edition) |
| SUNYANG | Chinese Olympic swimming champion, now banned for eight years. (3,4) |
| REED | Masters champion now playing LIV Golf (4) |
| EPOCHS | Hot and cold work reviewed by European and Sunday Times |
| BHOWMICK | Surname of the 14-year-old Indian table tennis champion who won the U-15 girls singles crown at the Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships. (8) |
| BARNA | Viktor, 1932-35 world men's singles table tennis champion (5) |
| EZRA | New York Times columnist and podcast host Klein |
| CAITLIN | --- Moran, Times columnist who wrote the bestseller How to Be a Woman |
| ATHERTON | Mike ---, Times columnist and former England cricket captain |
| SEPTUAGESIMA | What puzzles us - a Times page - and it's a Sunday! |
| ARENA | Retrospectively, a time and a place for sporting contest (5) |
| MAINTAINED | Kept it up for a time and wandered round in a daze (10) |
| SCARFE | Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald ____ has worked for The Sunday Times and Pink Floyd |
| STANDBY | Big characters from Sunday Times and Times should provide relief |
| ASIAN | Like most world table tennis champions |
| RESTON | Former New York Times columnist, James B. ___ |
