| CRUYFF | Johan ___ Dutch proponent of "total football" (6) |
| SUMO | Total football's second sport |
| EDFORS | Johan ___, Swedish golfer who won the 2006 Scottish Open (6) |
| 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 |
| OLAV | Speedskating champ Johan ___ Koss |
| KRIEK | Johan ___, 1981 Australian Open singles tennis champion (5) |
| ELMANDER | Johan ___ , Sweden striker at Bolton from 2008-11 (8) |
| PETRO | Johan ___ French former basketball player who has played for the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA |
| 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 |
