| MATHIAS | 1948 & 1952 Decathlon winner |
| BOBMATHIAS | 1948 and 1952 Olympic decathlon gold medallist |
| EMIL | 1948 and 1952 Olympic track gold medalist ___ ZA¡topek |
| DICKBUTTON | Figure skating gold medalist at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics |
| RAFER | Decathlon winner Johnson |
| DALEYTHOMPSON | 1980 & 1984 Olympic decathlon winner (5,8) |
| DAN | 1996 Olympics men's decathlon winner (3) |
| OBRIEN | 1996 Olympics men's decathlon winner (1'5) |
| LONDON | Summer Olympics host, 1908, 1948, and 2012 |
| JIMTHORPE | First-ever decathlon winner. He took the gold medal in the 1912 Olympic Games. (3,6) |
| IMPERIA | Belgian car maker active from 1906 to 1948, and on to 1957 producing Standards under licence (7) |
| KINSEY | Which US sex researcher's reports caused controversy when published in 1948 and 1953? (6) |
| KISSMEKATE | Musical with lyrics by Cole Porter first performed in 1948 and inspired by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (4,2,4) |
| FAGIN | Which character was played on film by Alec Guinness in 1948 and Ron Moody in 1968? (5) |
| TUBERCULOSIS | Anne fell ill with this illness in 1948 and died the next year (12) |
| HERUT | Israeli political party founded by Menachem Begin in 1948 and formally merged into Likud in 1988 (5) |
| SEDGMAN | Frank ?, 1951 and 1952 US National Championships singles tennis title winner (7) |
| ALLISTER | Jack ........ , 1951-52 Chelsea and 1952-58 Aberdeen right half; 1953 and 1954 Scottish Cup Final runner-up (8) |
| SPUD | Nickname of 1946-1950 Coventry City, 1950-1952 Spurs and 1952-1960 Birmingham City inside left Peter Murphy (4) |
| MASOPUST | 1954-66 Czechoslovakia and 1952-68 Dukla Prague midfielder; 1962 Ballon d'Or winner (5,8) |
