| Louisville's __ Center, cultural attraction | 47 |
| Lighter of the Olympic flame in Atlanta | 39 |
| Legendary heavyweight boxing champ | 34 |
| Larter of ''Heroes'' | 36 |
| Laila who won her first prizefight in 31 seconds | 48 |
| Laila who dances in and out of the ring | 39 |
| Kentucky's Athlete of the Century | 37 |
| Jenny in ''Love Story'' | 39 |
| Iranian ayatollah Sayyed ___ Khamenei | 37 |
| His last fight was a loss to Trevor Berbick | 43 |
| He was the first to beat Foreman | 32 |
| He said he was the greatest, and many agree | 43 |
| He proclaimed "I shook up the world" | 46 |
| He had a "sting like a bee" | 37 |
| He floated "like a butterfly" | 39 |
| He came out of retirement in 1980 | 33 |
| He "floated like a butterfly" | 39 |
| He ''stung like a bee'' | 39 |
| Former CNN business anchor Velshi | 33 |
| Former champ with a Presidential Medal of Freedom | 49 |
| Focus of a Louisville cultural center | 37 |
| First name in Scheherazade's tales | 38 |
| Film that won the 2002 NAACP Image Award | 40 |
| Film in which Voight plays Cosell | 33 |
| Fedotowsky of "The Bachelorette" | 42 |
| Fath ___, Shah of Persia: 1797–1835 | 42 |
| Eponym of a Parkinson research center in Phoenix | 48 |
| Dundee's protege in the ring | 32 |
| Defeater of Superman in a 1978 comic book | 41 |
| Cover subject of the April 1968 issue of Esquire | 48 |
| Caliph called "the Lion of God" | 41 |
| Bush's nickname for senator Barbara Boxer | 45 |
| Boxing's self-proclaimed greatest | 37 |
| Boxing's "greatest" | 33 |
| Boxer whose record was 56-5 with 37 KOs | 39 |
| Boxer who carried a torch at the 1996 Olympics | 46 |
| Boxer portrayed in a 2001 biopic | 32 |
| Boxer played by Will Smith in a 2001 biopic | 43 |
| Boxer nicknamed ''The Greatest'' | 48 |
| Boxer known as the "Louisville Lip" | 45 |
| Boxer known as "The Greatest" | 39 |
| Boxer in the first-ever pay-per-view match | 42 |
| Ben ___ (1886 Kentucky Derby winner) | 36 |
| Baritone in Rabaud's "Marouf" | 43 |
| Baba of "Arabian Nights" | 34 |
| Athlete who was friends with Malcolm X | 38 |
| Arabic name that means "exalted" | 42 |
| Arabic name meaning "high" | 36 |
| “Arabian Nights” character ___ Baba | 43 |
| Alcindor : Abdul-Jabbar :: Clay : ___ | 37 |
| 2001 film directed by Michael Mann | 34 |
| 2001 biopic directed by Michael Mann | 36 |
| 1960 Olympics boxing gold medalist | 34 |
| "When We Were Kings" athlete | 38 |
| "Thrilla in Manilla" winner | 37 |
| "The Rumble in the Jungle" boxer | 42 |
| "The Mouth That Roared" of the ring | 45 |
| "The Martyrdom of ___" (Muslim classic) | 49 |
| "The Greatest" pugilist | 33 |
| "The Greatest" of the ring | 36 |
| "The Greatest" in the ring | 36 |
| "The Greatest" in a ring | 34 |
| "Sting like a bee" champion | 37 |
| "Rumble in the Jungle" winner | 39 |
| "Rumble in the Jungle" name | 37 |
| "Open, sesame" speaker | 32 |
| "One Thousand and One Nights" hero | 44 |
| "Manila thriller" winner: 1975 | 40 |
| "Lawrence of Arabia" role | 35 |
| "Infidel" author Ayaan Hirsi ___ | 42 |
| "I am the greatest" source | 36 |
| "I am the greatest" proclaimer | 40 |
| "I am the greatest" boxer | 35 |
| "Greatest" of the ring | 32 |
| "Float like a butterfly" guy | 38 |
| "Fighter of the Century" | 34 |
| "Arabian Nights" figure, ___ Baba | 43 |
| "American Gladiators" cohost Laila | 44 |
| "American Gladiators "cohost | 38 |
| "__ Baba Bunny": classic Bugs cartoon | 47 |
| "__ Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 41 |
| 'Thrilla in Manila' fighter | 35 |
| 'Prince --' ('Aladdin' song) | 44 |
| '80s Giants kicker Haji-Sheikh | 34 |
| ''Thrilla in Manila'' victor | 44 |
| ''Thrilla in Manila'' principal | 47 |
| ''The Lion of God'' | 35 |
| ''The Greatest'' boxer | 38 |
| ''The greatest!'' | 33 |
| ''Rumble in the Jungle'' winner | 47 |
| ''Rumble in the Jungle'' victor | 47 |
| ''Rope-a-dope'' creator | 39 |
| ''Rope-a-dope'' boxer | 37 |
| ''I am the greatest'' speaker | 45 |
| ''Aladdin'' protagonist | 39 |
| ___ MacGraw "Love Story" co-star | 42 |
| ___ Hakim ("Oklahoma!" character) | 43 |
| ___ G (Sacha Baron Cohen persona) | 33 |
| ___ by Adidas (line of sports apparel) | 38 |
| ___ Baba ("Arabian Nights" character) | 47 |