| GAMERS | Online players right into World Cup or Ashes matches? (6) |
| MELEE | Possible occurrence during the World Cup or Stanley Cup |
| CATASTROPHE | Reserves among players right to hope trouble's a disaster? (11) |
| DONCASTER | Rovers team agreed to recruit players, right? |
| GODGAME | Genre where online players can create and control a simulated universe (3,4) |
| FROMSIDETOSIDE | Transfer a player right across the pitch (4,4,2,4) |
| WRINGER | Attacking player right in mangle |
| PCGAMER | Online player, briefly |
| URN | Container for tea or ashes (3) |
| SIFT | Separate, as flour or ashes |
| HITLER | He led Germany into World War 2 (6) |
| WILSON | Woodrow ___, president who led the United States into World War I |
| BIRDBATH | During entry into world, mend bad garden feature (8) |
| SEREVI | Waisale - - - , the first Fijian inducted into World Rugby's Hall of Fame (6) |
| BORNE | Brought into world at end of line and got carried along (5) |
| WOODROW | President who led the US into World War I in 1917, ... Wilson |
| URNS | Coffee or ashes containers |
| ANDRE | The first person inducted into World Wrestling's Hall of Fame, established in 1993, was ... the Gian |
| CHRISTIE | Ex-Springboks coach inducted into World Rugby's Hall of Fame in 2011 (8) |
| BICKER | Scots word for a treen bowl, cup or dish made of staves for liquor or porridge; a short noisy rapid run; clattering noise; or, an altercation, quarrel, squabble or wrangle (6) |
