| DACHSHUND | The 1st official Summer Olympic mascot was this type of dog, in Munich 1972 |
| RETRIEVER | Type of dog in Picture E (9) |
| CORGI | New statue of Queen Elizabeth, with this type of dog, unveiled (5) |
| SAUSAGE | This type of dog must get wise about America (7) |
| VASILY | Soviet super heavyweight weightlifter who won gold medals at Munich (1972) and Montreal (1976), ___ Aleklseyev (6) |
| LACROSSE | Official summer sport (8) |
| JIMTUNNEY | "The Dean of NFL Referees" who became the first official named to the All-Madden Team |
| COALFIRED | Longannet was this type of power station (4-5) |
| WALDI | What was the name of the first official mascot of the Olympic Games, introduced for the 1972 Summer Games in West Germany? |
| AUSTRALIA | Which country, along with Greece, France, Switzerland and Great Britain, makes up the five nations to have participated in all of the modern Summer Olympic Games? (9) |
| MELBOURNE | Site of the 1956 Summer Olympic Games (9) |
| MCDONALDS | Its first mascot was a toque-wearer named Speedee |
| WRESTLING | Summer Olympic sport (9) |
| OMISSIONS | Items left out for first official religious outposts (9) |
| ROEDEER | Bambi in the original novels was this type of animal (3,4) |
| HAWAII | The first official ironman triathlon competition was held in this US Pacific Island state in 1978 |
| GORILLA | London Zoo resident Guy, born in 1946, was this type of primate (7) |
| STARSANDBARS | Informally, the first official flag of the Confederate States of America |
| AGNES | Forename of the "Lady of Beauty" of the Chateau de Loches who was a mistress of Charles VII and first official favourite of a French king (5) |
| SEOUL | Capital of the Republic of South Korea and the site of the 1988 summer Olympic Games (5) |
