| WINGER | Germany, chasing victory, gets a flanker (6) |
| JACKAL | Wild animal or what a flanker might do in 4 down (6) |
| OVAL | Love a tail ender to be chasing victory at the cricket ground (4) |
| DARWINISTS | Group supporting Charles I's chasing victory in board game |
| VIRAGO | Amazon victory gets paramilitaries shot (6) |
| OSSIFY | Leader taken out in defeat, provided ending in victory, gets to toughen up (6) |
| CHEVRON | Revolutionary victory gets fellow a badge |
| VOLGA | Victory gets Russian girl a flower (5) |
| KVESIC | Matt - - - , Worcester flanker married to a BBC journalist (6) |
| PEPPER | Guy ...... , Newcastle Falcons flanker; 2024 England A squad member (6) |
| BURGER | Saracens rugby union flanker; 2003 South Africa Test debutant against Georgia (6,6) (see 15A) |
| SCHALK | Saracens rugby union flanker; 2003 South Africa Test debutant against Georgia (6,6) (see 3D) |
| NYANGA | Yannick ?, Zaire-born Racing 92 and France flanker (6) |
| JEROME | All Blacks flanker, ___ Kaino (6) |
| CALDER | Finlay ?, rugby union flanker; 1986 Scotland Test debutant against France (6) |
| POCOCK | David ---, Wallabies and Brumbies flanker (6) |
| BANGON | Disallow try by a Northampton flanker - dead right! (4,2) |
| LAURET | Wenceslas - - - , flanker omitted from France's Six Nations squad... (6) |
| OBORNE | '70s Collingwood halfforward flanker, Rod ... (6) |
| CRETIN | Is France flanker Dylan stupid? (6) |
