| ONALLSIDES | Circling those picked for every team (2,3,5) |
| SUBTITLE | You'll read this at the end of the film from Cannes - short reserve player is a target for every team in the Championship (8) |
| PARLEZVOUS | Number of old Emile Zola volumes initialled, risky circling those with stained finger (4,5,6-4) |
| IGUANAS | It's us again, circling those large, green tropical lizards (7) |
| INKY | Number of old Emile Zola volumes initialled, risky circling those with stained finger (4,5,6-4) |
| PINKY | Number of old Emile Zola volumes initialled, risky circling those with stained finger (4,5,6-4) |
| ROUNDROBIN | *Tournament where every team plays every other team |
| ASPERSIONS | Denigrate those picked to play Iranians for audience. (4,10) |
| DREADLOCKS | After great apprehension they can be picked for extended shocks (10) |
| PREDICTION | Forecasting what card you picked, for example |
| CAST | Denigrate those picked to play Iranians for audience. (4,10) |
| FARES | Those picked up in Hackney markets, I'm told (5) |
| ELECTRODE | Those picked went on horseback with a conductor (9) |
| CHAMPIONSHIP | Goal of every team |
| TEACH | Instruct every team leader to go first (5) |
| ASIDE | Every team's in isolation (5) |
| WAYNEGRETZKY | NHL center whose number 99 was retired by every team: 2 wds. |
| JACKIEROBINSON | Hall-of-Fame player whose number has been retired by every team in Major League Baseball |
| STANFORD | California college with an Olympic medalist on every Team USA since 1912 |
| INSIDE | Picked for team in prison (6) |
