| CHRISTIE | Ex-Springboks coach inducted into World Rugby's Hall of Fame in 2011 (8) |
| SEREVI | Waisale - - - , the first Fijian inducted into World Rugby's Hall of Fame (6) |
| PATRILEY | Coach inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 |
| WEARY | First Victorian inducted into rugby's Hall of Fame, -- Dunlop (5) |
| QUINN | Legendary Canadian coach inducted into HHOF as a builder in 2016 |
| NIENABER | World Cup-winning Springboks coach (8) |
| ANDRE | The first person inducted into World Wrestling's Hall of Fame, established in 1993, was ... the Gian |
| MALLETT | Nick - - - , former Springboks coach who at Oxford hit Ian Botham for three sixes in one over (7) |
| RASSIE | 2019 World Cup winning Springboks coach Johan Erasmus' nickname (6) |
| PREEZ | Ex-Springboks half, Fourie du ... (5) |
| PLESSIS | Ex-Springboks brothers, Jannie and Bismarck du...(7) |
| BIRDBATH | During entry into world, mend bad garden feature (8) |
| NUCIFORA | Former Blues coach in key role as Irish rugby's high performance director (8) |
| TJPERENARA | His score against Namibia at Japan 2019 won World Rugby's Try of the Year award (1,1,8) |
| SALLY | - - - Horrox, World Rugby's director of women's rugby (5) |
| LEINSTER | Irish team Michael Cheika coached to rugby's European Cup 2009 (8) |
| ANGELA | - - - Ruggiero, USA Olympic ice hockey gold medallist who is on World Rugby's Executive Committee (6) |
| IMPUDENT | Unwise dropping rugby's foremost forward (8) |
| STUDENTS | Sydney Uni rugby's nickname (8) |
| CALCUTTA | Rugby's Cup (8) |
