| ASTANA | City in Kazakhstan that hosted the 2019 FIDE World Team Championships (6) |
| KHALIFA | Multi-purpose stadium in Doha, Qatar, that hosted the 2019 World Athletics Championships (7) |
| UBER | The badminton cup, also referred to as World Team Championships for women. (4) |
| URALSK | Town in NW Kazakhstan that is a grain-trading and cattle centre (6) |
| WANDAMETROPOLITANO | Madrid stadium which hosted the 2019 Uefa Champions League final |
| ASHANA | Which city in Kazakhstan hosted the Asian Table Tennis Championships recently? (6) |
| ATYRAU | City in Kazakhstan on the Ural River associated with the oil industry (6) |
| AKMOLA | Former name, used from 1992-98, of the city of Astana in Kazakhstan (6) |
| KARPOV | Anatoly -, 1993-99 FIDE World Chess Championship title holder (6) |
| KIBITZ | Interfere just a little in Kazakhstan (6) |
| TABLETENNIS | Sport at which China's men's team clinched its 20th world team championship title in Sweden (5,6) |
| UBERCUP | Women's world team championship in badminton (4,3) |
| SUDIRMAN | The ... Cup, the World Mixed Team Championships in badminton which takes place every two years. (8) |
| ALMAATA | Former capital city in Kazakhstan |
| TARAZ | Industrial city in Kazakhstan (5) |
| ARALSEA | Lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that was formerly the fourth largest lake in the world (4,3) |
| NAKAMURA | The American GM Praggnanandhaa defeated to move into the last 16 of the FIDE World Cup. (8) |
| ALEKHINE | Born in 1892, the fourth pre-FIDE world chess champion (8) |
| ANATOLYKARPOV | The undisputed World Chess Champion 1975?85 and FIDE World Chess Champion 1993?99 |
| UCLA | School with the most NCAA Division I team championships: Abbr. |
