| CRUYFF | Johan ...... , Dutch proponent of "total football" (6) |
| SUMO | Total football's second sport |
| GANDHI | Core elements of rights presented by current proponent of independence (6) |
| ZEALOT | Fervent, even militant, proponent of something (6) |
| AUPAIR | Leaders of an unusual political alliance, in reality, a proponent of the nanny state perhaps (2,4) |
| EDISON | Noted proponent of direct current |
| ANARCH | Proponent of lawlessness, quaintly |
| STOICS | Proponents of the ancient Greek philosophy which sought virtue as the greatest good and taught control of one's feelings and passions |
| KEPLER | Johan, German astronomer who founded various laws of planetary motion (6) |
| TAXERS | Flat ___ (some proponents of I.R.S. reform) |
| WAGERS | Proponents of crystal healing |
| EDFORS | Johan, golfer who won the 2006 British Masters (6) |
| PUGIN | Architect, polemicist and principal proponent of the Gothic revival who wrote Contrasts and collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the detail, fittings and furnishings of the Palace of Westminster (5) |
| ROSSINI | Son of a town trumpeter who became one of the main proponents of bel canto; his best-known operas include William Tell, The Thieving Magpie and The Barber of Seville (7) |
| ELONMUSK | Proponent of colonization of Mars |
| ONO | Yoko, proponent of "bagism" of the sixties |
| ARTHURSCHOPENHAUER | Proponent of the philosophy of pessimism |
| AUTEURIST | Proponent of a director-centric theory of film |
| IONESCO | Proponent of the Theatre of the Absurd (7) |
| ARTDECO | Glass maker Rene Lalique was one of the earliest proponents of this design style of the 20s and 30s |
