| Athlete who wrote "A Hard Road to Glory" | 50 |
| Athlete who won the 1978 International Peace Award | 50 |
| Athlete who was friends with Malcolm X | 38 |
| Athlete who walked a lot | 24 |
| Athlete who started a clothing company in 1933 | 46 |
| Athlete who skates at Edmonton's Rexall Place | 49 |
| Athlete who shot himself in 2008, familiarly | 44 |
| Athlete who sells a line of Big Easy wines | 42 |
| Athlete who said: "I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments" | 93 |
| Athlete who posthumously won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1993 | 68 |
| Athlete who plays for pay | 25 |
| Athlete who plays for Mark Cuban, for short | 43 |
| Athlete who once got his kicks | 30 |
| Athlete who isn't green? | 28 |
| Athlete who has pigged out on snacks at a bar? | 46 |
| Athlete who has paintings of himself as a centaur hanging over his bed | 70 |
| Athlete who consumes too much trail mix? | 40 |
| Athlete who broke the four-minute mile | 38 |
| Athlete who blows the big game | 30 |
| Athlete who battled apartheid | 29 |
| Athlete wearing a calligraphic "D" logo | 49 |
| Athlete under a dome | 20 |
| Athlete turned politician | 25 |
| Athlete turned North Korean diplomat | 36 |
| Athlete trying to pass the bar? | 31 |
| Athlete Thorpe | 14 |
| Athlete stripped of a 1994 national title | 41 |
| Athlete sponsored by Subway | 27 |
| ATHLETE SERENA | 14 |
| Athlete seated at a table, maybe | 32 |
| Athlete on the rise? | 20 |
| Athlete on the reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" | 71 |
| Athlete on a rink | 17 |
| Athlete on a mat | 16 |
| Athlete on a 2005 U.S. postage stamp | 36 |
| Athlete of the Year awarder: Abbr. | 34 |
| Athlete of the Century Jim | 26 |
| Athlete of the century in some polls | 36 |
| Athlete nicknamed "The Punisher" | 42 |
| Athlete nicknamed "The Black Mamba" | 45 |
| Athlete nicknamed "The Big Easy" | 42 |
| Athlete nicknamed "O Rei" | 35 |
| Athlete Nastase | 15 |
| Athlete named a U.N. Messenger of Peace | 39 |
| Athlete more likely to take second than third? | 46 |
| Athlete married to baseball's Garciaparra | 45 |
| Athlete Mandlikova | 18 |
| Athlete like "Magic" | 30 |
| Athlete lead-in | 15 |
| Athlete John who was the only person to play professionally with Bill Russell and Jim Brown | 91 |
| Athlete Jim whose Native American name was Wa-Tho-Huk | 53 |
| Athlete Jim | 11 |
| Athlete Jesse | 13 |
| Athlete in the Nike ad "Re2pect" | 42 |
| Athlete in the majors | 21 |
| Athlete in blue | 15 |
| Athlete in a shell | 18 |
| Athlete in a crease | 19 |
| Athlete in a crash helmet | 25 |
| Athlete hoping not to be thrown out | 35 |
| Athlete honored on a 2005 postage stamp | 39 |
| Athlete Graf | 12 |
| Athlete from Tres Coracoes, Brazil | 34 |
| Athlete from Temple | 19 |
| Athlete from St. Mary's College | 35 |
| Athlete fond of combers | 23 |
| Athlete feted with a New York City ticker-tape parade in 1998 | 61 |
| Athlete dubbed "O Rei do Futebol" | 43 |
| Athlete competing for the Beehive Boot | 38 |
| Athlete Brewer or Painter Schaefer | 35 |
| Athlete born Edson Arantes do Nascimento | 40 |
| Athlete Banks or Nevers | 23 |
| Athlete Archibald | 17 |
| Athlete Agassi | 14 |
| Athlete a.k.a. "The Ice Maiden" | 41 |
| Athlete a.k.a. "The Big Shamrock" | 43 |
| Athlete | 7 |
| Athirst | 7 |
| Athina Onassis de Miranda, e.g. | 31 |
| Atherton's "Black ___" | 36 |
| Athens-to-Bucharest dir. | 24 |
| Athens-Sparta battle site | 25 |
| Athens, Ohio and Athens, Georgia, for two | 41 |
| Athens's Temple of ___ | 26 |
| Athens's state, in ancient times | 36 |
| Athens's setting | 20 |
| Athens's rival | 18 |
| Athens's home | 17 |
| Athens's district | 21 |
| Athens' state | 17 |
| Athens' rival of yore | 25 |
| Athens' rival of old | 24 |
| Athens' rival | 17 |
| Athens' region | 18 |
| Athens' opponents | 21 |
| Athens' foe at Marathon | 27 |
| Athens' ancient rival | 25 |
| Athens' ancient enemy | 25 |
| Athens' aitches | 19 |
| Athens university | 17 |