| GOALPOSTS | End dispatches showing what leading characters from Harlequins and Hull KR represent in their sports? (9) |
| CHAMPION | Person who has beaten all rivals in their sport, eg (8) |
| COSTARRED | What leading actors did about Apple stores |
| FAN | One cheering for their sports team |
| LUAMANU | Mat -, New Zealandborn Bayonne Number 8 signed from Harlequins in 2019 (7) |
| LETTER | Note what's leading for all sides today (6) |
| CRANE | Former Hull FC, Leeds and Hull KR forward capped by Great Britain in 1982 (5) |
| MICK | Former Hull FC, Leeds and Hull KR forward capped by Great Britain in 1982 (4) |
| GLEESON | Former Wigan, Wakefield, Salford and Hull KR centre who retired in 2014 (7) |
| SEAN | Former Wigan, Wakefield, Salford and Hull KR centre who retired in 2014 (4) |
| MASOE | Mose ..... , Samoa and Hull KR prop who retired in 2020 (5) |
| WELHAM | Kris -, Sheffield Eagles and former Salford and Hull KR rugby league centre |
| EDEN | Greg .... , former Castleford, Huddersfield and Hull KR wing/ full-back (4) |
| LEWIS | England and Hull KR half-back (5) |
| MIKEY | England and Hull KR half-back (5) |
| MACAU | Three leading characters from Cambridge set up a university somewhere in China (5) |
| ROMEOANDJULIET | Play with leading characters from Richard and Judy? (5,3,6) |
| THRASH | Leading characters from Tottenham Hotspur reckless in defeat (6) |
| GONE | Leading characters from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four" exhausted (4) |
| KNOCKER | Rapper has shrine to leading characters from Easy Riders (7) |
