| TORRE | Yankee Joe whose #6 was retired |
| OLIVA | Tony whose #6 was retired by the Twins |
| JOETORRE | Skipper whose #6 was retired in 2014 |
| DIMAG | Yankee Joe, informally |
| JULIUSERVING | His #6 was retired by the Philadelphia 76ers and his #32 by the Brooklyn Nets: 2 wds. |
| RIDER | "If 6 Was 9" off Easy ___ soundtrack |
| ROACH | Kemar ..... , West Indies bowler whose 6-27 against Netherlands in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup included a hat-trick (5) |
| SIRAJ | Surname of player whose 6-for set up India's Edgbaston win. (5) |
| MADONNA | Singer whose six children include four adopted from Malawi |
| KING | Good supporting people, as 6 was for Corinthians and others (4) |
| WOODS | New Hampshire resort where the creation of the 19/6 was agreed (7,5) |
| BRETTON | New Hampshire resort where the creation of the 19/6 was agreed (7,5) |
| NINE | "If Six Was ___" by Jimi Hendrix |
| SPEED | This 'Six' was dubbed the 'Blue Train Bentley' (5) |
| JOYCE | Author who coined "quarks," whose six flavors appear in this puzzle's six groups of circled squares |
| HENRYVIII | King whose six wives are remembered in the rhyme: "Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived" (5,4) |
| HADRONS | They're composed of quarks (particles whose six flavors appear at the ends of the asterisked entries) |
| BACH | Composer whose six Cello Suites are based on Baroque dances (4) |
| MAXWHITLOCK | British gymnast whose six Olympic medals include two golds on the pommel horse (3,8) |
| TUDOR | Edward VI was the third monarch in this English royal house (5) |
