| WINGARD | Former midfielder for Port and Hawthorn, Chad - (7) |
| ORIGAMI | Folding paper over, reaches for port and ends of macaroni |
| EARLE | Robbie _, NBC football pundit and former midfielder for Wimbledon and the Jamaican national team (5) |
| COLE | Joe, former midfielder for West Ham United and Chelsea who won 56 England caps (4) |
| NAPOLI | Italian name for port and tourist centre in south-west Italy (6) |
| BLOSSOM | Celebrated in the Japanese Hanami festival, pastel pink or white blooms of trees including wild cherry (gean), peach, plum, crab apple and hawthorn (7) |
| LAMPARD | Frank, English former midfielder who has managed Derby County, Chelsea and Everton FCs (7) |
| ALMIRON | Miguel, Paraguayan attacking midfielder for Newcastle United FC (7) |
| TY | Former Richmond and Hawthorn AFL player, - Vickery (2) |
| RIOLI | Famed indigenous AFL family has made its mark at Richmond, Essendon and Hawthorn (5) |
| BERYL | 0-6-0DM locomotive built as Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 7697 and which found a home at the Tanfield Railway (5) |
| MAYTREE | Alternative name for hawthorn (3,4) |
| GRAEMESOUNESS | Football pundit and former midfielder who won 54 caps for Scotland (6,7) |
| MEDLAR | Bletted and used for jelly or "cheese", a fruit related to the rose, apple, quince and hawthorn, typically found in farmers' markets or old gardens (6) |
| SAWDUST | Result of getting teeth stuck into Hawthorn, perhaps |
| MAYPOLE | One danced around hawthorn tree with E European |
| MAKEHAY | Potassium - what a hawthorn absorbs, or dry grass |
| NIVEN | Derek ..... , former midfielder whose clubs included Chesterfield, Grimsby Town and Buxton (5) |
| YORATH | Terry, Welsh former midfielder and international manager born in 1950 (6) |
| ANDY | .... Townsend, former midfielder and sports commentator (4) |
