| WATFORD | English football club nicknamed the Hornets whose home ground is Vicarage Road (7) |
| PEARSON | New Vicarage Road boss (7) |
| READING | English football club nicknamed 'The Royals' (7) |
| TORQUAY | Football club nicknamed 'The Gulls' whose home ground is Plainmoor (7,6) |
| EVERTON | UK football club nicknamed the Toffees (7) |
| CHELSEA | Football club nicknamed The Blues (7) |
| ARSENAL | London football club nicknamed "The Gunners" |
| UDINESE | Italian football club nicknamed Zebrette ("The Little Zebras") (7) |
| LARSSON | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" novelist |
| LIVERPOOL | This most successful English football club, nicknamed The Reds, has finished top of the First Divisi |
| ARGYLE | English football club nicknamed 'the Pilgrims' whose local rivals are Exeter City (8,6) |
| PLYMOUTH | English football club nicknamed 'the Pilgrims' whose local rivals are Exeter City (8,6) |
| UNITED | Football club nicknamed 'The Gulls' whose home ground is Plainmoor (7,6) |
| AVARICE | 1,000 taken from vicarage? That could be a sin (7) |
| RECTORY | Type of clergy house in an ecclesiastical parish other than a Vicarage, parsonage or manse (7) |
| TOWN | Huddersfield ...., English football club nicknamed 'The Terriers' (4) |
| BRENTFORD | English football club nicknamed The Bees (9) |
| EXETER | ____ City, English football club nicknamed the Grecians (6) |
| CREWE | ..... Alexandra, English football club nicknamed The Railwaymen (5) |
| VEHICLE | Vicar left rear of vicarage catching what bus? |
