| CARLOS | With 76-Across, Mexican business magnate who was once the world's richest person |
| ARISTOTLE | Greek business magnate who was the second husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, _ Onassis (9) |
| HELU | Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim ___ |
| NAURU | Island nation that's the world's smallest republic |
| ARECIBO | Puerto Rico's ___ Telescope, formerly the world's largest single-aperture telescope |
| DATA | "The world's most valuable resource," per The Economist |
| AMES | Upper Midwest town with the world's tallest concrete gnome |
| CIGAR | The world's most expensive one, the Gurkha Royal Courtesan, costs over $1.3 million |
| IKEA | Producer of the world's most widely read consumer catalog |
| MERCEDESBENZ | Maker of the world's first diesel-powered passenger car |
| YAM | Major vegetable export of Nigeria (nearly 70% of the world's total) |
| BANGKOK | The world's most-visited city (20+ million travelers annually) |
| SYDNEY | Home to the world's tallest steel arch bridge |
| INDIAN | Third-largest of the world's oceans |
| PERU | Home of many of the world's alpacas |
| MEN | Around 50.25% of the world's adult population |
| ISLAM | Belief of roughly 25% of the world's population |
| RON | Business honcho Perelman, who was once the richest man in America |
| ASTOR | At his death in 1848, he was the richest person in the U.S. |
| GETTY | Oilman who was once the wealthiest in the US, with an LA art museum named after him, J.Paul - (5) |
