| NYMETS | Team that won a world championship in its eighth yr. |
| ASH | Pokemon main character Ketchum who finally won a world championship in 2022 |
| KANSASCITYROYALS | MLB franchise that won a World Series during the 2010s |
| OCTENNIAL | Happening every eighth year, or lasting eight years (9) |
| SWAT | Police procedural in its eighth season that has been canceled twice |
| PHANTOM | Model first produced by Rolls-Royce in the 1920s, now in its eighth generation (7) |
| EIGHT | The number of lanes in a World Championship swimming pool (5) |
| GADIROVA | Jessica _, artistic gymnast and Great Britain's first all-round medallist at a world championship (8) |
| CUBS | Team that last won a World Series in 1908 |
| GIANTS | Team that last won a World Series in 1954 |
| RAYS | One of eight teams that never won a World Series |
| STAR | Appears above a country's crest to show they have won a World Cup. (4) |
| HELMUT | Father of Stefan, who won a world title in the intermediate class 20 years after his dad just missed one! (6) |
| FAMILY | Long Lost ___, TV show that reunites people, currently airing its eighth series, hosted by 8A and Nicky Campbell (6) |
| NRA | Ulysses S. Grant was its eighth president: Abbr. |
| ALTIG | Rudi ___, German cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a Espana and the world championship in 1966 |
| LOTUS | Make of car in which Jim Clark won the F1 World Championship in 1963 and 1965 (5) |
| STEVENS | Matthew ......., runner up in snooker's World Championship in 2000 and 2005 (7) |
| MANSELL | Nigel ___, British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1992 (7) |
| IRVINE | Eddie ......, runner-up in F1's World Championship in 1999 (6) |
