| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| LED | Was the front-runner |
| LED | Was a front-runner |
| LEADDOG | Front runner in the Iditarod |
| OWENS | Runner who was called "The Buckeye Bullet" |
| AIKEN | Clay who was the "Idol" runner-up to Ruben Studdard |
| ROWLING | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| OSLO | City I visited after I was runner-up for the Nobel Prize in literature; they'll realize I should have won in ten years |
