| GRADY | Wayne -, winner of the 1990 PGA Championship (5) |
| SAINZ | Carlos ?, winner of the 1990 and 1992 World Rally Drivers" Championship (5) |
| VOGUE | Madonna's first UK No.1 single of the 1990s, from the soundtrack album of the 1990 film Dick Tracy (5) |
| NAOMI | Author of the 1990 feminist book The Beauty Myth, _ Woolf (5) |
| SPLIT | In athletics, host city of the 1990 European Championships (5) |
| RAIMI | Sam, director of the 1990 film Darkman (5) |
| SABATINI | Gabriela ?, winner of the 1990 US Open singles tennis championship (8) |
| PAZ | Octavio ___, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature (3) |
| GORBACHEV | Mikhail, winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize (9) |
| CHAPERON | Bob ?, Canadian winner of the 1990 British Open snooker tournament (8) |
| DESERTORCHID | Ridden by Richard Dunwoody, winner of the 1990 Irish Grand National |
| WAYNEGRADY | 1990 PGA Championship champ |
| RODNEYCROWELL | ____ wrote and recorded After All This Time, winner of the 1990 best country song Grammy award |
| ROBSON | Bobby, England football manager who took the side to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup (6) |
| BRUNDLE | Martin, the winner, with John Nielsen and Price Cobb, of the 1990 Le Mans 24-hour race (7) |
| ZEFFIRELLI | Italian director of the 1990 version of Hamlet, Franco ... |
| ASBYATT | Writer of the 1990 Booker Prize winning novel Possession (1,1,5) |
| OLEARY | Whose penalty put Ireland into the quarter finals of the 1990 World Cup? (6) |
| APENNYMORENOT | Jeffrey Archer novel published in 1976 and the title of the 1990 television adaptation starring Ed A |
| SCHILLACI | Who scored the goal that knocked Ireland out of the 1990 World Cup? (9) |
