| BORIS | And 3 Down Tenth official World Chess Champion (1969-72), fictionalised as Anatoly Sergievsky in 1986 Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice musical Chess (5,7) |
| SPASSKY | Tenth official World Chess Champion (1969-72), fictionalised as Anatoly Sergievsky in 1986 Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice musical Chess (5,7) |
| ANTHEM | Patriotic closing song of Act 1 of the 1986 musical Chess, sung by Anatoly Sergievsky (The Russian) (6) |
| EFRENTORRES | Mexican boxer known as "El Alacran" (the Scorpion) who was WBC Flyweight Champion 1969?70 |
| KARPOV | Anatoly ___, Russian chess grandmaster who was the 12th official world champion from 1975 to 1985 (6) |
| DORSET | English county fictionalised as South Wessex in the works of Thomas Hardy (6) |
| SLIGO | Irish town fictionalised as Ballah in the works of W. B. Yeats (5) |
| TRENT | Midlands river fictionalised as the Floss in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) (5) |
| BORISSPASSKY | World chess champion from 1969-72 |
| GERSON | 1961-72 Brazil and 1969-72 Sao Paulo midfielder; 1970 FIFA World Cup Final winner (6) |
| ADIDAS | The brand that has made the official World Cup ball for Qatar! (6) |
| THOMPSON | Author who fictionalised her birth hamlet Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire as Lark Rise in her Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels (8) |
| NURMI | One of the runners nicknamed "Flying Finn" who himself won nine Olympic gold medals and set 22 official world records (5) |
| NOMAD | BLMC Australia's 1969-'72 hatchback E-series 1500cc-engined version of the BMC 1100 (5) |
| DODGIN | Bill ...... Jr, 1969-72 Fulham and 1976-80 Brentford manager (6) |
| CERA | Pierluigi .... , 1969-72 Italy, 1957-64 Verona, 1964-73 Cagliari and 1973-79 Cesena defender (4) |
| MERCKX | Eddy, 1969-72 winner of the Tour de France (6) |
| EDDY | Belgian cyclist, nicknamed 'the Cannibal', whose 445 professional wins included five Tours de France (1969-72, 1974) (4) |
| RUDGE | John ..... , 1969-72 Torquay forward; 1983-99 Port Vale manager (5) |
| FLAVELL | Bobby ..., 1965-66 and 1969-72 Albion Rovers boss (7) |
