| GRENVILLE | Kate -, 2006 winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for novel The Secret River |
| GUEST | Which Australian writer won the 2010 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book with her novel |
| PEREIRO | Oscar ?, 2006 winner of the Tour de France following the disqualification of Floyd Landis (7) |
| LEONALEWIS | Singer; 2006 winner of the ITV series The X Factor |
| LEWIS | Singer; 2006 winner of the ITV series The X Factor (5,5) |
| LEONA | Singer; 2006 winner of the ITV series The X Factor (5,5) |
| PROKOPCUKA | Jelena ___, 2005 and 2006 winner of the New York City marathon women's race (10) |
| WESTMEAD | 2005 and 2006 winner of the English Greyhound Derby (8,4) |
| SETHI | Geet ?, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2006 winner of the WPBSA World Billiards Championship |
| AMES | Stephen ...., golfer; 2006 winner of The Players Championship (4) |
| NANCYDREW | Teenage sleuth who first appeared in the 1930 novel The Secret of the Old Clock (5,4) |
| NANCY | Amateur sleuth who first appears in the 1930 novel The Secret Of The Old Clock, _ Drew (5) |
| UPTON | He won the Pulitzer for Novel the same year that Thornton won for Drama |
| BANVILLE | John, writer noted for novel The Sea which won the Booker Prize in 2005 (8) |
| TARTT | Donna ___, author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend (5) |
| BURNETT | Author of A Little Princess and The Lost Prince whose classic novel The Secret Garden was adapted into a forthcoming film with Colin Firth and Julie Walters (7) |
| SABOTAGE | Alfred Hitchcock film based on the Joseph Conrad novel The Secret Agent (8) |
| FIENNES | Ranulph ?, author of 2001 novel The Secret Hunters (7) |
| AGENT | BBC adaptation of 1907 Joseph Conrad novel, The Secret ___ (5) |
| DONNA | ____ Tartt, writer born in 1963 noted for her novel The Secret History (5) |
