| MURPHY | Shaun English snooker player who won the 2005 world championship (6) |
| SHAUN | ____ Murphy, English snooker player who won the 2005 World Championship (5) |
| EVANS | Shaun, English actor who plays the lead in TV series Endeavour, prequel to Inspector Morse (5) |
| WILSON | Kyren _, English snooker player who earned his first world title in 2024 (6) |
| PINTER | Playwright who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6) |
| HAROLD | Playwright who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6) |
| NICLAS | Swedish golfer who won the 2005 New Zealand Open (6,5) |
| REMESY | Jean-Francois, golfer who won the 2005 Open de France (6) |
| ASTROS | Runners-up in the 2005 World Series |
| BEKELE | Kenenisa ___, 2005 World Championships men's 10,000m gold medallist (6) |
| LAURYN | 2005 World Championships women's 100m gold medallist (6,8) |
| GHARIB | Jaouad...., 2003 and 2005 World Championships marathon gold medallist (6) |
| DARREN | ...... Gough, former England Test cricketer who won the 2005 BBC reality show Strictly Come Dancing (6) |
| THORNE | Willie, English snooker player and commentator who won the 1985 Classic (6) |
| RONNIE | _ O'Sullivan, English snooker player and the current World No1 (6) |
| CARTER | Ali, English snooker player, nicknamed The Captain (6) |
| CHICAGO | Baseball team that won the 2005 World Series (7,5,3) |
| WHITESOX | Baseball team that won the 2005 World Series (7,5,3) |
| PULMAN | John, bespectacled English snooker player born in 1923 (6) |
| RONNIEOSULLIVAN | English snooker player who first won the World Championship in 2001 (6,9) |
