| ALBION | .... .. Rovers, Scottish Third Division football team (6) |
| ELGIN | ..... City, Scottish Third Division side whose nickname is The Black and Whites (5) |
| APOEL | 2012-13 to 2018-19 Cypriot First Division football champions (5) |
| RAITH | -- Rovers, Scottish football club based in Kirkcaldy (5) |
| FASCISM | Soccer bosses scrapping third division - this rule isn't democratic (7) |
| WARD | Battle against last in third division |
| TRANSFERFEE | A British ____ record was set when Tommy Lawton joined Notts County to play in the Third Division South in 1947 |
| NEWTON | Weatherfield brewery that supplies the Rovers with its beer (6,3,6) |
| ANTONY | Actor who's been playing Rovers Return barman Sean Tully since 2003 (6,6) |
| SUTTON | Chris, English former Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea FC striker turned radio football pundit (6) |
| BAILEY | He stopped the Rovers Return from being turned into flats in Corrie (6,6) |
| RONNIE | He stopped the Rovers Return from being turned into flats in Corrie (6,6) |
| WHOOPS | Waterford ahead of Rovers? Oh dear! (6) |
| GRAHAM | Danny ......, Blackburn Rovers striker previously with Swansea City and Sunderland (6) |
| RETURN | The Rovers __, pub on the corner of Coronation Street (6) |
| RIDLEY | Newton and __, brewery which supplies the Rovers Return in Weatherfield (6) |
| STELLA | Rovers Return landlady who recently reopened her pub (6,5) |
| TANNER | Nick ___, Bristol Rovers midfielder/defender signed by Liverpool in 1988 (6) |
| NOMADS | Rovers curse about keeping ball on side initially (6) |
| NELSEN | Ryan ......, Blackburn Rovers, Queens Park Rangers and New Zealand defender (6) |
