| WGGRACE | English cricketer, born 1848, one of the sport's greats (1,1,5) |
| LEGENDS | Sports greats, to fans |
| FENCING | One of the sports comprising a modern pentathlon or tetrathlon (7) |
| MALCOLM | Devon, England test match cricketer born in Jamaica (7) |
| CAPTAIN | Leader of the sports team. (7) |
| ESIASON | Co-host of the sports radio show "Boomer and Gio" |
| TRACING | Recording start of the sport of kings (7) |
| PLAYERS | Members of the sports team |
| ROWING | One of the sports participated in by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin ( |
| TENNIS | ___ was one of the sports included the inaugural Games of the modern Olympics at Athens in 1896 (6) |
| DIMAGGIO | Surname of the US baseball player Joltin' Joe or the Yankee Clipper, one of the sport's all-time greats (8) |
| RUGBY | Contested at the Six Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France, one of the sports or games that originated in the UK (5) |
| TRUEMAN | Fred ___ (1931-2006), English cricketer; the first bowler to take 300 test wickets (7) |
| ROOTOUT | Get rid of thug losing head behind English cricketer (4,3) |
| RODDYPIPER | Canadian WWF star, nicknamed Rowdy, seen as one of the sport's greatest "heels" |
| HAMMOND | Wally -, 1903-1965, English cricketer (7) |
| CRAWLEY | Zak _, English cricketer who recently made his maiden Test century against Pakistan (7) |
| PACEMAN | Computer game absorbing English cricketer (7) |
| BOYCOTT | Shun former legendary English cricketer - as a protest maybe? (7) |
| GATTING | Mike _; English cricketer (7) |
