| LIENERT | All Blacks midfield stalwart, -- -Brown (7) |
| NONU | All Blacks midfield powerhouse bowed out of international rugby after 2015 World Cup (4) |
| OLO | Former All Blacks front-row stalwart, - Brown (3) |
| ERONI | First name Caleb Clarke's All Black midfield father (5) |
| MCLEOD | Crusaders All Black midfield Test debutant v Wallabies 2023 (5) |
| LALLANA | Adam -, England, Liverpool and former Southampton midfield footballer (7) |
| OUTSIDE | Winger's position, ... midfield (7) |
| BREMNER | Billy , midfield footballer for Leeds United and Scotland (7) |
| CYPRESS | Evergreen City, bypassing midfield, push forward (7) |
| INIESTA | Andres -, 2006-18 Spain midfield footballer (7) |
| INAMOTO | Junichi, Japan midfield footballer from 2000-10 who played for Arsenal, Fulham, and West Bromwich Albion (7) |
| HENDRIE | Lee ?, Aston Villa midfield footballer; 1998 England cap winner against the Czech Republic (7) |
| BONMATI | Aitana _, footballer who plays in midfield for Barcelona and the Spain national team (7) |
| CUISINE | What's cooking? Copper is, in midfield |
| EATENUP | Obsessed with midfield of team ahead 11-1? (5,2) |
| OCONNELL | Nicky ......... Clare midfield who won an All Ireland hurling final winners medal in 2013 (1'7) |
| SWEEPER | 34-across player who links the backline and midfield (7) |
| BERT | 1924 All Black Invincibles midfield maestro, _ Cooke (4) |
| LYNCH | Paudie ....., Kerry midfield, half or corner back who won his fifth All Ireland football final winner's medal in 1981 (5) |
| ANDY | .... Comerford, Kilkenny midfield who won three All Ireland hurling final winner's medals (4) |
