| KELLEHER | Byron ?, 1999-2007 New Zealand scrum-half who played club rugby for Stade Francais and Toulouse |
| PAULSE | Breyton ?, 1999-2007 South Africa rugby union wing and full-back |
| SOPRANOS | The ?, 1999-2007 US television drama series starring James Gandolfini and Edie Falco |
| IOANE | Digby -, former Australia, Stade Francais and Honda Heat rugby union wing and centre (5) |
| VEAINU | Telusa - - - , Tongan 24 Across who plays for Stade Francais (6) |
| SACKEY | Paul 2006-2009 England, 2000-2005 London Irish, 2005- 2010 Wasps, 2010-2011 Toulon, 2011-2013 Stade Francais and 2013-2014 Harlequins wing (6) |
| WALDENPWNED | What a hacker says after performing a successful DDOS on crossword constructor Byron? |
| DONJUAN | Which legendary Spanish lover is the subject of a poem by Byron? (3,4) |
| CLUBFOOTED | Wildly flout code about book, like Lord Byron? |
| MEHRTENS | Andrew ?, 1995-2004 All Blacks fly-half who played club rugby for Harlequins, Toulon and Racing Metro 92 |
| LOGAN | Kenny ?, 1992-2003 Scotland wing who played club rugby for Glasgow Warriors, Wasps and London Scottish |
| THIBAUD | - - - Flament, France lock at Toulouse who played club rugby in Belgium (7) |
| GREGAN | George ___, retired rugby union scrum half who played 139 internationals for Australia (6) |
| EDWARDS | Gareth ___, rugby union scrum-half who played 53 consecutive Wales Test matches between 1967-78 (7) |
| GRANTWILLIAMS | Sharks and South Africa scrum-half who played right-wing against Romania at the World Cup (5,8) |
| PIENAAR | Springbok half-back who plays club rugby for Ulster, Ruan ___ (7) |
| HOWLEY | Rob ...... , scrum half who played 59 internationals for Wales (6) |
| LEROUX | Willie - - - , Springbok who plays his club rugby for Toyota Verblitz (2,4) |
| NICOLE | - - - Cronin, Ireland Women scrum-half who played soccer in America (6) |
| IESTYN | ...... Harris, former Wales outside half who played rugby league for Great Britain (6) |
