| GOODLOSER | Excellent roles played in sport |
| TABLETENNIS | Nine battles played in sport |
| MOREORLESS | Roles played in customs -- roughly (4,2,4) |
| ARENA | __ rock (music played in sports venues, say) |
| MARKWAHLBERG | Charlies Croker in The Italian Job, Tommy Saunders in Patriots Day, James Silva in Mile 22, Dusty in Daddy's Home and Eddie Adams in Boogie Nights are film roles played by this US actor (4,8) |
| BILLMURRAY | Phil in Groundhog Day, Bob Harris in Lost in Translation and Carl Spackler in Caddyshack are film roles played by this US actor (4,6) |
| BILLNIGHY | Billy Mack in Love Actually, Alan in Sometimes Always Never, Edmund Brundish in The Bookshop and Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 1, are film roles played by this Britis |
| LIEVSCHRIEBER | Marty Baron in Spotlight, Ted Winter in Salt and John Clark in The Sum Of All Fears are film roles played by this US actor (4,9) |
| MICHAELBJORDAN | Adonis Creed in the Rocky sequel film Creed, Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther are film roles played by this US actor (7,1,6) |
| MARTINSHEEN | Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now, Tom in The Way and Carl Fox in Wall Street, are film roles played by this US actor (6,5) |
| AMBERHEARD | Mera in Aquaman and Justice League, Nicola Six in London Fields and Vivi Delay in 3 Days to Kill, are film roles played by this US actress (5,5) |
| DANNY | Sid Hudgens in L.A. Confidential, Dr. Larry Arbogast in Junior and Martin Weir in Get Shorty are movie roles played by this actor, ___ DeVito (5) |
| JOSHHARTNETT | Slevin Kelevra in Lucky Number Slevin, Eben Oleson in 30 Days Of Night and Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert in The Black Dahlia, are film roles played by this US actor (4,8) |
| TARONEGERTON | Elton John in Rocketman, Michael 'Eddie' Edwards in Eddie The Eagle and the title role in the 2018 film Robin Hood are roles played by this British actor (5,7) |
| DEATHONTHENILE | The roles played by Maggie Smith and Bette Davis in the first film of this Agatha Christie book were played by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders in the second. |
| JUDYGREER | Kitty Sanchez in Arrested Development and Bridget Schmidt in Two And A Half Men are roles played on TV by this US actress, whose films include Jurassic World and 13 Going On 30 (4,5) |
| MAGGIEGRACE | Shannon Rutherford on the TV series Lost, Kim Mills in the Taken trilogy and Irina in The Twilight Saga are roles played by this US actress (6,5) |
| JOHNNYGALECKI | Leonard Hofstadter in the TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory and David Healy in the TV sitcom Roseanne are roles played by this US actor, whose films include Hancock and Vanilla Sky (6,7) |
| GWENYTHPALTROW | Marge Sherwood in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Virginia 'Pepper' Potts in Iron Man are roles played by this actress (7,7) |
| ROSECOLOURED | Decorous role played in pink perhaps (4-8) |
