| ARNESLOT | Dutch coach appointed as manager of Liverpool in 2024 (4,4) |
| SHERRATT | Matt, rugby coach appointed as interim coach of Wales in 2025 (8) |
| KEVINKEEGAN | Former England footballer twice appointed as manager of Newcastle United FC (5, 6) |
| KLOPP | Jurgen, German football coach who left Liverpool in 2024 (5) |
| JOBONFRERE | Dutch coach of Nigeria's victorious 1996 Olympic football team |
| WIEGMAN | Sarina, Dutch coach who masterminded the Lionesses' tournament victory in Euro 2022 (7) |
| SHEPPARD | David, former England Test cricket captain who became the Bishop of Liverpool in 1975 (8) |
| ENGLISHLANGUAGE | It's all the talk of Liverpool, in a manner of speaking (7,8) |
| RANGNICK | Ralf, German coach appointed interim manager of Manchester United FC in 2021 (8) |
| MCCULLUM | Brendon ........ , New Zealand cricketer who made 302 against India in Wellington in 2014; England Test coach appointed in 2022 (8) |
| WOODGATE | Jonathan -, Middlesbrough head coach appointed in June with Robbie Keane as his assistant (8) |
| HOULLIER | Gerald _, late footballer and former manager of Liverpool FC who passed away in December (8) |
| DALGLISH | Manager of Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United (8) |
| EASTMOND | Halifax Panthers coach appointed in October; former St Helens, Bath Rugby, Wasps and Leicester dual code centre (4,8) |
| ASHUTOSH | Who was appointed as the new coach of the Indian Davis Cup team? (8) |
| LAUREATE | One crowned with bay leaves; winner of a Nobel prize; or, a person appointed as court poet of Britain (8) |
| PINOCHET | Augusto ---, Chilean army general who was head of state and appointed as president in 1974 (8) |
| ORDAINED | Appointed as a member of the clergy |
| ASSIGNED | Appointed as design engineers (8) |
| HODGSON | Roy ___, football manager who took over as manager of his boyhood club, Crystal Palace, in 2017 |
