| LITTLEMO | Nickname of US tennis player Maureen Connolly, Wimbledon champion in 1952, 1953 and 1954 (6,2) |
| WILLIAMS | The surname of US tennis players Venus and Serena (8) |
| SIRKEN | 1952, 1953 and 1954 Champion Hurdle-winning horse (3,3) |
| RIOPELLE | Montreal-born painter Jean Paul of 1952-1953 oil on canvas Vent du Nord which sold for a record $6,250,000 CAD at auction in 2017 at Heffel |
| ASCARI | Alberto ___, Italian racing driver who was Formula 1 World Champion in 1952 and 1953 |
| ALBERTOASCARI | Formula One World Champion in 1952 and 1953 |
| MO | Nickname women's tennis legend Maureen Connolly, Little -(2) |
| ALLISTER | Jack ........ , 1951-52 Chelsea and 1952-58 Aberdeen right half; 1953 and 1954 Scottish Cup Final runner-up (8) |
| JOEPERRY | 49er who was the NFL's only 1,000-yard rusher in 1953 and 1954 |
| VIRGINIA | - Wade, British tennis player who was Wimbledon champion in 1977 (8) |
| SCARFACE | Nickname of US gangster Al Capone, deriving from knife wounds received in a barfight in 1917 (8) |
| SUPERMEX | Nickname of US golfer Lee Trevino, 1971's PGA Player of the Year (8) |
| CHEMNITZ | City called Karl-Marx-Stadt between 1953 and 1990 |
| KVITOVA | Petra _, Czech tennis player who was Wimbledon champion in 2011 and 2014 (7) |
| LAVER | Rod ___, Australian tennis player, four times Wimbledon champion in the 1960s (5) |
| SNEAD | Sam ___, US golfer who won the Masters Tournament in 1949, 1952 and 1954 (5) |
| SATCHMO | Nickname of US jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901- 71) used as the title of an autobiography published in 1954 (7) |
| ENCOUNTER | Political and literary magazine founded in 1953, and originally edited by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol |
| BRAVES | Atlanta ___ Major League Baseball team that was founded in Boston and relocated twice in 1953 and 1966 |
| DANNYKAYE | Late actor, star of 1952's Hans Christian Andersen and 1954 classic White Christmas (5,4) |
