| ADAMSILVER | Current commissioner of the National Basketball Association: 2 wds. |
| ROGERGOODELL | Current commissioner of the National Football League: 2 wds. |
| NXIBA | Get dressed, team, to enter the National Basketball Association (5) |
| BRAMSTOKER | Dracula novelist who lends his name to awards presented annually by the Horror Writers Association: 2 wds. |
| ROBMANFRED | Current commissioner of Major League Baseball: 2 wds. |
| COPARTNERSHIP | Conservative arranged intro, perhaps, for business association (2-11) |
| LPGA | Sporting org. whose current commissioner is Mollie Marcoux |
| TU | Employees' association (2) |
| RAINMEN | Former team in Halifax in the National Basketball League of Canada (Trivia! The Hurricanes are the city's current team) |
| NBA | National Basketball Association (abbr) (1,1,1) |
| INDIANA | US National Basketball Association franchise, -- Pacers (7) |
| PINBALL | Tablet featuring National Basketball Association game (7) |
| LEBRON | He was the first (alongside Chris) active NBA player inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame |
| ISLANDSTORM | Atlantic Division team in the National Basketball League of Canada |
| DIVISIONS | 'Central' and 'Atlantic' in the National Basketball League of Canada |
| ODO | '--- of Bayeaux', probable commissioner of the Tapestry (3) |
| TRENCHARD | Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who founded the police college at Hendon (9) |
| CALLTHESHOTS | Lead, like the commissioner of the NBA? |
| EVELYNCROMER | Which Greek scholar was British commissioner of the Egyptian public debt office and directed the Fre |
| MAURICE | Former commissioner of the RCMP Nadon |
