| ROCHE | Only Stephen ____ and Eddy Merckx have won the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and the world road cycling championship |
| RULES | CYC is a project to build a knowledge base of a projected 100 million commonsense assertions that would allow the system itself to extract further _____ directly from ordinary prose (5) |
| BELGIUM | Noted for beer and chocolates, birth country of Eddy Merckx (7) |
| CANNIBAL | The ____, nickname of Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx (8) |
| EDDYMERCKX | Belgian cyclist who won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia five times each, and one Vuelta a Espana |
| MARIANNE | ____ Vos, Dutch multi-discipline cyclist who is a three-times world road race champion (8) |
| PEDRO | - Delgado: Spanish cyclist who won the 1988 Tour de France and 1985 and 1989 Vuelta a Espana (5) |
| STEPHENROCHE | Irish cyclist who won the treble of the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the World Championship in 1987 |
| HUGOKOBLET | Swiss cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia in 1950 and the Tour de France in 1951 |
| FAUSTOCOPPI | Italian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Tour de France twice |
| ROSA | Maglia -; Italian for the pink jersey worn by the leader of the classification in the Giro d'Italia road cycle races (4) |
| SIMONI | Gilberto ?, cyclist who won the Giro d"Italia in 2001 and 2003 (6) |
| GRANDTOUR | Collective name for the series of three professional road cycle races including the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana (5,4) |
| ALLIED | The major ones during the First World War were Great Britain (and its empire), France and the Russian empire (6) |
| EDDY | --- Merckx, Belgian cyclist who won the Tour de France five times in the 1960s and '70s (4) |
| BIKED | Competed in the Giro d'Italia |
| ANDYHAMPSTEN | American cyclist, 1988 winner of the Giro d'Italia (4,8) |
| SAIL | In the old days you could go by boat from Formosa, Ile de France and Ceylon ... (4) |
| ERIC | 1992-1993 Racing Club de France and 1993-1996 US Colomiers wing/ centre between spells at Stade Toulousain; 1984 France Test debutant (4,8) |
| BONNEVAL | 1992-1993 Racing Club de France and 1993-1996 US Colomiers wing/ centre between spells at Stade Toulousain; 1984 France Test debutant (4,8) |
