| POLEVAULT | The eighth event in the decathlon |
| TENTH | Last event in the decathlon, relatively |
| DISCUS | A field event in athletics that is traditionally the seventh in order in the decathlon (6) |
| ASHTONEATON | American athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics (6,5) |
| RAFERJOHNSON | US track-and-field star who got a silver and a gold medal in the decathlon in consecutive Olympics: |
| JIM | Thorpe who set a world record in the decathlon at the 1912 Olympics |
| MACEY | Dean ---, English athlete who won gold in the decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games (5) |
| EVENTS | Disciplines in the decathlon, eg (6) |
| ROMANSEBRLE | Czech athlete, a former world record holder in the decathlon (5,6) |
| SEBRLE | Roman ---, Czech athlete; a former world record holder in the decathlon (6) |
| THOMPSON | Athlete who, at the 1984 Olympics, won the decathlon gold medal for the second time; or, an actress who starred in a television adaptation of Olivia Manning's Fortunes of War (8) |
| DEANMACEY | English winner of the decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games |
| DALEYTHOMPSON | British athlete who was the decathlon champion at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games (5,8) |
| AUSTRALIAN | ___ Open first annual Grand Slam tennis event of the year and the largest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere |
| EASTER | The biggest event in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic church |
| IDES | A significant event in the Roman calendar of the past ___ _ _ 'The ___ _ _ of March' |
| SEARLE | Greg and Jonny, British rowing brothers who won gold in the coxed pairs event in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics (6) |
| LEDECKY | American swimmer Katie ___, who has a women's record seven Olympic swimming golds, including three successive wins in the 800m freestyle event in the last three Olympics |
| RACE | Event in the Marble Rally, which went viral in 2020 |
| SERMON | ___ on the Mount (event in the Gospel of Matthew) |
