| NONETS | Group of players sent on? Sent off! |
| OUTCAST | Away with the players sent to Coventry (7) |
| ENTRANTS | Players sent off without angry shouting |
| GREENHILL | First player sent off in State of Origin match (9) |
| ALCOCK | Flyer a rugby player sent around clubs |
| HEARTEN | Encourage team with player sent off after try (7) |
| CRAIG | First player sent off in Origin match, -- Greenhill (5) |
| MORAN | Kevin ....., first player sent off in an FA Cup Final (5) |
| SMALL | James ....., first player sent off playing for South Africa in a rugby union Test match (5) |
| BENFLOWER | 2012-20 Wigan prop; first player sent off in a Super League Grand Final (3,6) |
| PATROL | From "paw about" and "paddle in mud", a word for a beat, guard, night-watch, vigil or other going of the rounds; a detachment of soldiers sent on reconnaissance; or, a subdivision of a troop of Guides |
| ALLIANCE | "... he will be sent on a tour around the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic ____ will follow" (Keir Hardie, five days after the birth of the future Edward VIII) |
| EMISSARY | Person sent on a mission on behalf of a government or state (8) |
| VALENTINE | Type of card sent on February 14 |
| SONNET | Sent on, in form of poem (6) |
| PAROXYSMS | Fits answer into text message sent on behalf of someone else |
| SCUD | You'll be sent on a trip by this leader of air force (4) |
| ACID | You'll be sent on a trip by this leader of air force (4) |
| APARTRIDGE | What my true love sent on the first day of Christmas (1,9,2,1,4,4) |
| INAPEAR | What my true love sent on the first day of Christmas (1,9,2,1,4,4) |
