| HENDRY | Scottish snooker player who retired in 2012 with a record-breaking seven world championship titles (6) |
| SCHUMACHER | Michael ___, Formula 1 driver who won seven World Championship titles (10) |
| LANCEARMSTRONG | Disgraced cyclist who won the Tour de France in a record-breaking seven consecutive years |
| RAYE | Which jazz-soul-pop singer was nominated for a record-breaking seven of the 2024 Brit Awards, winning six of them? (4) |
| ANALOGISE | -Draw comparisons with a record-breaking flavouring (9) |
| SOTO | Baseball's Juan ___, with a record-breaking Mets contract |
| AGOSTINI | Italian racing motorcyclist who won a record 15 World Championship titles (8 in 500cc and 7 in 350cc) between 1966 and 1975 (7,8) |
| GIACOMO | And 24 Italian racing motorcyclist who won a record 15 World Championship titles (8 in 500cc and 7 in 350cc) between 1966 and 1975 (7,8) |
| ORR | Danny ___, Great Britain, Wigan Warriors and Castleford Tigers rugby league player who retired in 2012 (3) |
| STEVEDAVIS | English snooker player who won six World Championship titles during the 1980s (5,5) |
| DAVIS | English snooker player who won six World Championship titles during the 1980s (5,5) |
| STEVE | English snooker player who won six World Championship titles during the 1980s (5,5) |
| STEPHEN | Scottish snooker player who won the World Championship seven times in the 1990s (7,6) |
| HAMILTON | Lewis ___ all-time great Formula 1 driver who has a joint-record 7 World Drivers' Championship titles |
| EXID | Originally a six-member girl group, they debuted in 2012 with the single album Holla but had greater success with the single "Up & Down" in 2014 |
| STEPHENHENDRY | Scottish snooker player who was seven-time world champion in the 1990s (7,6) |
| JOHNHIGGINS | Scottish snooker player who won the first of his four world titles in 1998 |
| TAYLOR | Phil, darts player who won his sixteenth World Championship title in 2013 (6) |
| TWILIGHT | Book-based movie series that ended in 2012 with "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" |
| AOA | This girl group formed by FNC Entertainment debuted (with eight members) in 2012 with the single album Angels' Story |
