| EUROPEANCUP | Cuppa one can rue in footie event (8,3) |
| BALLGAME | A footie event, goal-focused sport, slam-dunking contest or other activity involving an orb or whole new proverbial situation (4,4) |
| VOTER | One putting a cross in the box in footie, regularly caught by vacuous viewer |
| FANZINE | Penalty seals one-zero in footie mag (7) |
| REASSURANCE | Comfort engineers - fool can rue corruption |
| BUILTUPAREA | Grimly Paula has a bit to rue in limited driving space (5,2,4) |
| ENDURANCE | Last part can rue change in power to keep going |
| MORGUE | Rue in a story |
| TUREEN | All fingers clasping crushed rue in the dish (6) |
| ASSURANCE | Fool can rue sending guarantee (9) |
| EGRET | Having lost the right to rue, in other words, another bird goes down (5) |
| REGRET | Rues, in other words... (5,6) |
| FEELS | And 3D. Rues, in other words... (5,6) |
| IAN | ___ Wright, ex-footie star in the IAC camp this year (3) |
| STATEOFORIGIN | Footie star rebuilt spirit in Australian representative match (5,2,6) |
| OTHERHALF | Short rest then 45 mins of footie, mate? |
| CINDERELLA | Ball girl chosen for final footie match |
| FEW | Footie tips point to a small number |
| MATCH | Game (of footie, eg) (5) |
| NEIL | ___ 'Razor' Ruddock, ex footie star now CM contestant (4) |
