| BIRMINGHAM | Where Rick Vaive spent his first pro season (in the WHA) |
| WAKELY | Goalie Ernie who played for the NHL and five teams in the WHA |
| SWENSON | Cal who played with the Winnipeg Jets when they were in the WHA (World Hockey Association) |
| AEROS | Team Gordie Howe played for in the WHA |
| BIGMAC | Taniela Tupou signed his first pro contract for the Reds over two - - - meals in an Auckland McDonald's (3,3) |
| DAVIDNJOKU | Nigerian American NFL tight end who was named to his first Pro Bowl after the 2023 season: 2 wds. |
| NICKLAUS | "Golden Bear", his first pro win was a US Open |
| JACK | "Golden Bear", his first pro win was a US Open |
| DRAKE | Clare ___ was longtime coach at the U of Alberta, also steered the WHA Oilers |
| CHEEVERS | 'Cheesie,' who is a member of both the HHOF and the WHA Hall of Fame |
| QUAKERS | Philadelphia team that spent a single season in the NHL in the 1930s |
| NHL | It absorbed the WHA in 1979 |
| APRIL | Month, part of the first meteorological season in the Northern Hemisphere (5) |
| INTER | The first season in the UK women scored for football club |
| MONET | Artist who spent his final 20 years in Giverny where he painted the Water Lilies series from his flower gardens and Haystacks in fields nearby (5) |
| FALLFLAT | Be unsuccessful in season in the U.S. of a dull nature (4,4) |
| PIANO | Where Rick hid the letters of transit |
| MUNGOMAN | In 1974, the geomorphologist Jim Bowler discovered these remains while studying the climate of prehistoric Australia. They are 40,000 years old and are the world's first known human ritual burial. Wha |
| TERRYJACKS | "Now that the Spring is in the air...": Winnipeg-born singer of "Seasons in the Sun": 2 wds. |
| STARFISH | They were on the beach in "Seasons in the Sun" |
