| DAVIDE | _ Sanclimenti, the joint winner of this year's Love Island (6) |
| SANAM | The joint winner of this year's Love Island, _ Harrinanan (5) |
| HARDING | The joint winner of this year's Love Island, Jess _ (7) |
| MIMII | _ Ngulube, one of the winners of this year's Love Island (5) |
| DONLAN | Lucie _, contestant on this year's Love Island (6) |
| ERICLU | Winner of this year's Leeds International Piano Competition (4,2) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret ---, Canadian author who was joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her novel The Testaments (6) |
| ARAFAT | Yasser, joint-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize (6) |
| LORENZ | Konrad -, Austrian psychologist, zoologist and ethologist; joint-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (6) |
| SCHAMA | Joint winner of the 1977 Wolfson History Prize |
| ELEVEN | Age that the daughter of Maxine Minniver, Minnie, will reach in November of this year (6) |
| SPORTY | This 13's opening in middle of this year (6) |
| WERENUMBERONE | What the winners of this year's March Madness basketball tournament can say; our theme entries show the round-by-round progression of the number of teams still in it |
| TYLA | Late arrival to this year's Love Island, right (4,4) |
| CARR | Late arrival to this year's Love Island, right (4,4) |
| ARABELLA | _ Chi, evicted from this year's Love Island (8) |
| MAGNUM | Who won both Blitz and Rapid categories in the men's section of this year's Tata Steel India chess tournament? (6) |
| NEVADA | *Host state of this year's Super Bowl |
| WOOD | Billy _ the winner of this year's National Hot Rod World Final (4) |
| SKERRIES | Overall winner of this year's Tidy Towns competition. (8) |
