| PEAKE | British ESA astronaut and test pilot who finished his 186-day Principia mission working on the International Space Station in June 2016 (5) |
| CHUCKYEAGER | US aviator and test pilot who, in 1947, was the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound |
| TIMPEAKE | The first British ESA astronaut |
| BABERUTH | Slugger who finished his career with the Boston Braves |
| SEAU | Junior who finished his career with the Patriots |
| SOUTHWELL | Hugo, 2004-11 Scotland rugby union fullback who finished his club career at Wasps (9) |
| YEAGER | US test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier (6) |
| ALGORE | He and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize |
| ALDRIN | Buzz _, US former astronaut and the second person to walk on the moon (6) |
| TOBED | Samuel Pepys typically finished his diary entries with the phrase "And so __ ___". (2,3) |
| FAIRS | The Inter-Cities ___ Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971 |
| DOLDRUMS | Equatorial region of calms, light variable winds and thunderstorms; properly, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (8) |
| GIOTTO | ESA probe that studied Halley's Comet and was named after an artist who observed the latter in 1301 (6) |
| BROOK | England Test cricketer who made 186 against New Zealand in Wellington in 2023 (5) |
| HARRY | England Test cricketer who made 186 against New Zealand in Wellington in 2023 (5) |
| MAEJEMISON | The first Black female astronaut and winner of a National Achievement Scholarship in 1973: 2 wds. |
| JUICE | From French for "broth", the extract of fruits or vegetables; vitality or vigour; an informal term for alcohol, electricity or fuel; or, the name of an ESA Jupiter mission (5) |
| EVA | Ms Green, the astronaut and mother in Alice Winocour's Proxima (3) |
| GRISSOM | Gus ___, USAF test pilot portrayed by Fred Ward in 1983 film drama The Right Stuff (7) |
| GUSGRISSOM | USAF test pilot portrayed by Fred Ward in 1983 film drama The Right Stuff |
