| NIGELSHORT | The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final |
| ANDYNICOL | Former captain of Bath who was the first British player to lift the Heineken Cup |
| NHL | Hockey league that in 1998 1st allowed its players to participate in Games (3) |
| TRIVIALPURSUIT | Game issued in a 20th anniversary edition in 2002 |
| KEEGAN | Who is the only British player to have been voted European Footballer of the Year twice? (6) |
| TRIPLESEC | Drink in a twentieth of a minute? (6,3) |
| RUTH | ___ Benedict, a 20th-century American anthropologist, the first woman to be recognised as a prominent leader in that profession (4) |
| EVERYMAN | Which principal character in a 15th Century play gave his name to a 20th Century series of literary masterpieces? (8) |
| DINGJUNHUI | Chinese snooker player who lost to Mark Selby in the 2016 World Championship final (4,6) |
| MURPHY | Shaun, English snooker player who lost to Mark Selby in the 2021 World Championship final (6) |
| MAMES | The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was one of two UK hospitals selected to participate in a 2006 programme to screen for ... cancer (5) |
| ENTRYFORM | Sheet filled in to participate in a competition (5,4) |
| APRILMAYMARCH | Permission for a "Parks and Rec" character to participate in a parade? |
| MOGWAI | They provided the soundtrack to Zidane: A 20th Century Portrait (6) |
| GILES | A 20th-century topical cartoonist most famous for his work in the Daily Express (5) |
| WILSON | Which surname was shared by a 20th century US president and a British prime minister? (6) |
| TURANGALEELA | One-eyed spaceship captain in the Futurama animated series, named after a 20th-century symphony |
| TABB | Michaela -, first woman to referee the snooker World Championship final (4) |
| DAI | ___ Rees (greatest British player never to win a British Open, some would say) |
| ETAPE | L'- du Tour; cyclosportive event enabling amateur cyclists to participate in a stage of the Tour de France (5) |
