| BRYANT | Champion bowls player who won 13 world titles in his career (6) |
| NIETO | Spanish motorcyclist who won 13 World Championships (5) |
| NOVAK | ___ Djokovic Serbian professional tennis player who won 16 Grand Slam singles titles in his career |
| PAES | Leander ___ Indian professional tennis player who won 10 mixed doubles Grand Slam titles in his career |
| HEROFORHIRE | Luke Cage's title in his first comics appearance |
| HEARNS | Thomas _, boxer who was the first to win world titles in five weight divisions (6) |
| EIDMAN | Ian - - - , Cardiff prop who won 13 Welsh caps in the 1980s (6) |
| ADVANI | Who recently won a historic 28th World title in the World Billiards Championship held in Doha on November 9, 2024? (6) |
| WILSON | Kyren _, English snooker player who earned his first world title in 2024 (6) |
| SARRON | Frenchman who won the 250cc world title in the year that Wayne Rainey first ventured onto the world stage. (9,6) |
| HELMUT | Father of Stefan, who won a world title in the intermediate class 20 years after his dad just missed one! (6) |
| BURTON | Beryl, English racing cyclist born in 1937 who won seven world titles (6) |
| MCGIRT | Buddy ___, US boxer who won light welterweight and welterweight world titles (6) |
| PISSAY | Aishwarya ..., first Indian to win world title in motorsports. (6) |
| REDMAN | British-born racer who won six world titles within four years, riding under a Rhodesian flag. (6) |
| SHELLY | Jamaican sprinter; winner of three Olympic gold medals and 10 World titles (6-3,6-5) |
| ALLCOCK | Tony ___, bowls player who won the 2002 World Indoor Singles Championship (7) |
| JOHNHIGGINS | Scottish snooker player who won the first of his four world titles in 1998 |
| JEFFFENECH | Boxer who won world titles in three weight divisions (4,6) |
| TONYCANZONERI | American boxer who won world titles in the featherweight, lightweight and light welterweight divisions (4,9) |