| ATSIXESANDSEVENS | A bigot retired with game of rugby in a mess (2,5,3,6) |
| EXTRATIME | Additional period of play in football or rugby in a tie or draw situation (5,4) |
| ARGYLL | Everybody accepting odd bits of rugby in part of Scotland |
| COERCION | Start of rugby in old English clubs I found in study - it's compelling (8) |
| LINEOUT | A method of restarting play in a game of rugby (4-3) |
| PROP | A member of the front row in a game of rugby (4) |
| TOUCH | Form of rugby in which only the hands can be used to make contact with opposition players (5) |
| IMAGE | The picture one gets with game of a sort (5) |
| DEATHINVENICE | Film with game of chance including Eva in the cast - name? |
| SEVENS | Observed about five spectators at the start of a game of rugby (6) |
| HALFBACKS | Nos 9 and 10 in a game of rugby union (9) |
| TRIED | Attempted to score in a game of rugby? (5) |
| WARRIOR | One fighting with a bigot, oddly lacking in educational basics |
| EPAULETTE | Monkey about with game of chance, knocking heads off ornament (9) |
| DANCE | Do this for Comic Relief, perhaps, with Game of Thrones actor Charles (5) |
| EDDARD | Some visited Dardanelles with Game of Thrones patriarch Stark (6) |
| GREGOR | After good start, Roger returns with Game of Thrones' Clegane (6) |
| EVENS | Odds in game of rugby slashed at the outset |
| FLYHALF | Danny Cipriani's position in the game of Rugby (3,4) |
| KICKSOFF | Commences a game of rugby or football (5,3) |
