| BORIS | And 3 Down Tenth official World Chess Champion (1969-72), fictionalised as Anatoly Sergievsky in 1986 Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice musical Chess (5,7) |
| SPASSKY | Tenth official World Chess Champion (1969-72), fictionalised as Anatoly Sergievsky in 1986 Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice musical Chess (5,7) |
| EFRENTORRES | Mexican boxer known as "El Alacran" (the Scorpion) who was WBC Flyweight Champion 1969?70 |
| KARPOV | Anatoly ___, Russian chess grandmaster who was the 12th official world champion from 1975 to 1985 (6) |
| DORSET | English county fictionalised as South Wessex in the works of Thomas Hardy (6) |
| SLIGO | Irish town fictionalised as Ballah in the works of W. B. Yeats (5) |
| TRENT | Midlands river fictionalised as the Floss in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) (5) |
| BORISSPASSKY | World chess champion from 1969-72 |
| GERSON | 1961-72 Brazil and 1969-72 Sao Paulo midfielder; 1970 FIFA World Cup Final winner (6) |
| ADIDAS | The brand that has made the official World Cup ball for Qatar! (6) |
| THOMPSON | Author who fictionalised her birth hamlet Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire as Lark Rise in her Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels (8) |
| NURMI | One of the runners nicknamed "Flying Finn" who himself won nine Olympic gold medals and set 22 official world records (5) |
| WAUGH | Author of Brideshead Revisited who fictionalised his career in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards in the Sword of Honour trilogy (5) |
| NOMAD | BLMC Australia's 1969-'72 hatchback E-series 1500cc-engined version of the BMC 1100 (5) |
| SMERSH | Soviet counter-intelligence umbrella organisation fictionalised in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels (6) |
| SIEGFRIEDSASSOON | Author of the fictionalised autobiography known as the Sherston trilogy |
| CYRANODEBERGERAC | French writer and dramatist, fictionalised in an 1897 play by Edmond Rostand |
| DUNCANI | Fictionalised in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, king of Scotland 1034-40 (6,1) |
| MOZART | Wolfgang -; Austrian composer portrayed by Tom Hulce in the fictionalised biopic Amadeus (6) |
| BARNUM | Impresario whose life was fictionalised in the film The Greatest Showman |
