| SHOOTINGSTARS | Range champions in the night sky (8,5) |
| RIDGEBACK | Top of the range champion dog breed |
| NEWYORKKNICKS | US basketball team who were the NBA champions in 1970 and 1973 (3,4,6) |
| CASTERSEMENYA | Which South African is a double Olympic champion in the 800m? |
| MIAMIDOLPHINS | Super Bowl champions in 1973 and 1974 |
| STEPHENHENDRY | Scottish snooker player who was seven-time world champion in the 1990s (7,6) |
| LEONARD | One of the world's leading professional boxing champions in the 1970s and 80s, Sugar Ray ... |
| OILERS | Four-time N.H.L. champions in the 1980's |
| BROWNS | Seven-time N.F.L. East champions in the 1950's |
| BAYERNMUNICH | Current champions in the Bundesliga (6,6) |
| ASTON | --- Villa, football team who were First Division champions in the 1980-81 season (5) |
| SUGARRAY | First names of boxers Robinson and Leonard, middleweight world champions in the 1940s and 1980s (5,3) |
| BUBKA | Olympic champion in the men's pole vault in 1988 (5) |
| SINCE | The stuff of champions in centuries past (5) |
| FARAH | Who is the current world and Olympic champion in the 5,000m and 10,000m? (5) |
| BOARDMAN | Chris ---, British cyclist who was Olympic champion in the 4000m Individual Pursuit at the 1992 Games (8) |
| BRISTOW | Five-time World Darts Champion in the 1980s, nicknamed 'the crafty Cockney' (7) |
| OLIVIER | Monsieur Jacque, the last ever French World Champion in the 250cc class. (7) |
| EMILIO | Senor Alzamora, the only Spanish 125cc World Champion in the 1990s. (6) |
| ABRAHAMS | Harold ___, 1924 Olympic champion in the 100m; a protagonist of the 1981 movie Chariots Of Fire (8) |
