| KIRKLAND | Chris ___, goalkeeper whose sole England cap in 2006 earned his father and friends A£10,000 each for a bet made eleven years earlier |
| STEVEHANLEY | This ex-Sale wing progressed from Aspatria RUFC to a 1999 England cap in less than a year (5,6) |
| CODLING | Alex ___ , Harlequins forwards coach who won an England cap in 2002 (7) |
| SPINK | Nigel ___, goalkeeper who came on as a substitute for Jimmy Rimmer ten minutes into Aston Villa's 1982 European Cup Final victory over Bayern Munich |
| BANKS | Gordon ___, goalkeeper (5) |
| ENYEAMA | Vincent ___, goalkeeper who won 101 caps for Nigeria |
| GROUP | A band of musicians/singers, a circle of friends, a class of peers, a cluster of galaxies, a family of chemical elements or a gathering of people (5) |
| LLOYD | Writer and horticulturist whose lifelong home at Great Dixter was remodelled and restored by his father and Edwin Lutyens in 1910-12 (5) |
| QUAKERS | Members of the Society of Friends, a pacifist Christian denomination founded in England in the 17th |
| DRONE | Bourdon of a bagpipe or a song; or, a male honey bee whose sole aim is to mate with a queen (5) |
| OEDIPUS | Tragic king of Thebes who solved the Sphinx's riddle and unknowingly killed his father and married his mother (7) |
| PELOPS | Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology who was killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal (6) |
| OEDIPUSREX | Tragedy by Greek writer Sophocles about a king who unwittingly kills his father and marn'es his mother (7,3) |
| WHITE | Manchester City player whose one England cap was against Spain in 1992 (5,5) |
| SURGEONGENERAL | David Satcher earned his M.D. from CWRU in 1970, and later assumed this position under presidents Clinton and Bush 43 |
| SCALES | John ...... , Liverpool defender awarded three England caps in 1995, against Japan, Sweden and Brazil in the Umbro Cup (6) |
| ALDERBURY | Two of my friends, a doctor and a leading author who live together in Ubley, are travelling to visit my place near Salisbury (9) |
| SCOTTCARSON | Former England goalkeeper whose clubs have included Leeds United, Liverpool and Manchester City |
| BEGOVIC | Asmir ....... , former Bosnia and Herzegovina goalkeeper whose clubs have included Chelsea, AFC Bournemouth and Everton (7) |
| BENFOSTER | Former England goalkeeper whose sides included West Brom, Watford and Wrexham (3,6) |
