| TENS | The seven perfect scores attained by Nadia Comaneci in the 1976 Olympics |
| EMIGRE | Nadia Comaneci, in 1989 |
| PROGRESSION | Score attained by two cricket players batting together... (11) |
| TEN | Score earned by Nadia Comaneci on July 18, 1976, the first such score ever achieved by a gymnast in an Olympic event |
| NADIACOMANECI | Gymnast with seven perfect 10's in the 1976 Olympics |
| COMANECI | Gymnast Nadia who scored seven perfect 10's at the 1976 Olympics |
| NADIA | ..... Comaneci, in gymnastics, female winner of five Olympic gold medals (5) |
| PERFECTTENS | Comaneci's seven in the 1976 Olympics |
| ANNE | British royal who competed in the 1976 Olympics |
| ANNIE | First name of Ms Palmer, the EastEnders character that was played by Nadia Sawalha in the 1990s (5) |
| ROM | For whom the gymnast Nadia Comaneci won gold in 1976: Abbr. |
| DONQUARRIE | Jamaican sprinter who won gold in the 200m at the 1976 Olympics and silver in the 100m (3,7) |
| BRENDANFOSTER | Former athlete who won a bronze medal in the 10,000m at the 1976 Olympics, founder of the Great North Run (7,6) |
| ESCARGOT | Mark in English attained by slowcoach in French (8) |
| PARALLEL | -- bars was the men's gymnastics discipline won at the 1976 Olympics by Sawao Kato (8) |
| DEFECTED | Nadia Comaneci ____ to the USA in 1989 |
| FOSTER | Brendan, British ex-long distance runner who won bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Olympics (6) |
| KUDOS | Prestige finally attained by university in Aegean island (5) |
| PRESTIGE | Reputation attained by the tiger and most apes (8) |
| TERMINAL | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ velocity, the greatest speed attained by a parachutist falling through air (8) |
