| WIDNES | ...... Vikings, English rugby league club (6) |
| TIGERS | Castleford ._.... English rugby league club (6) |
| BRADFORD | ........ Bulls, English rugby league club (8) |
| WIGAN | ..... Warriors, English rugby league club (5) |
| BOTICA | Frano ?, former New Zealand and Croatia rugby union player at rugby league club Wigan from 1990-95 (6) |
| ROVERS | Rugby league club; 1983 Challenge Cup Final winners (12,6) |
| WYNNUM | Seagulls Qld Cup rugby league club, ... Manly (6) |
| SEARLE | Gold Coast Titans rugby league club's foundation CEO (6) |
| RHINOS | Leeds ___: one of England's biggest rugby league clubs. (6) |
| ROBBURROW | English rugby league player at Leeds Rhinos wno was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019 (3,6) |
| NOBLE | Brian _; English rugby league coach (5) |
| RFL | English rugby league's governing body, abbrev (3) |
| MARTIN | ___ Johnson former English rugby player who captained England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup |
| EXVOTO | English rugby team perhaps gets round to fulfilling promise |
| PAULMCSHANE | English rugby league footballer named Man of Steel for the 2020 season |
| DEVOTO | Ollie -, English rugby union centre at Exeter Chiefs from 2016-24 |
| SINFIELD | Kevin ___, English rugby union coach who played his entire rugby league career with Leeds, captaining them to seven Super League championships and two Challenge Cups (8) |
| SALFORDREDDEVILS | Rugby league club who lost 82-0 to St Helens last month in their first Super League fixture of the year (7,3,6) |
| STHELENA | Rugby League club docked first in Ascension Island (2,6) |
| FEATHERSTONE | Rugby league club; 1983 Challenge Cup Final winners (12,6) |
