| DQED | Banned for a rules infraction, informally |
| FORFEIT | Loss due to a rule infraction |
| CHATTERLEY | Lady -; protagonist in a novel by D. H. Lawrence that was banned for a time (10) |
| LESBOYD | Wests forward banned for a year for breaking Daryl Brohman's jaw in 1983 Origin (3,4) |
| SQUADDIE | Square bashing did for a rule for him (8) |
| FOUL | General word for a rule infringement in football, punishable with a red card (4) |
| MAYA | Cook a yam for Fijian lock Keresi, banned for punching a referee (4) |
| FAILURE | Collapse if a rule's broken (7) |
| AUNATUREL | Naked relative admitting a rule's broken (2,7) |
| CHANDILA | First bowler to take a hat trick for the Royals in the IPL, his career ended when he was banned for spot fixing |
| LOUVINCENT | NZ opener banned for life for spot-fixing (3, 7) |
| ANDRO | Drug banned for Olympians, for short |
| DDT | Substance banned for agricultural use in 1972, for short |
| HANN | Snooker's 'bad boy', banned for 8 years for match fixing, Quinten ... (4) |
| KANERIA | Pakistan spinner banned for life by the ECB for spot fixing, Danish ... (7) |
| SALIMMALIK | Pakistan Test captain banned for life for match fixing in 2000 (5,5) |
| URINE | Preston Lodge forward Darren Eales was banned for eight years after a - - - test found traces of Stanozolol (5) |
| ABSINTHE | What potent alcoholic drink with a wormwood content was banned for many years? (8) |
| KINDEREGGS | These German candies were banned for decades in the U.S. before becoming legal in 2017; the small toy they come with was previously considered a choking hazard |
| HANSIE | Proteas captain banned for life for match fixing in 2000, ... Cronje (6) |
