| STATEWARRIORS | Golden ___ American professional basketball team based in Oakland that was recognised as the seventh highest valued sports franchise: 2 wds. |
| OKC | American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma: Abbr. |
| REALMADRID | Spanish professional football club which was recognised as the FIFA Club of the century in the year 2000: 2 wds. |
| WARRIORS | The Golden State ___: NBA team based in Oakland, California (8) |
| SOX | Red ___, American professional baseball team from Boston |
| EDWIN | Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria who was recognised as overlord of all England except Kent (5) |
| SUNS | The Phoenix ---, professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona (4) |
| BREAKERS | Professional basketball team based in Auckland (8) |
| ASBESTOS | The use of what fibrous mineral was used as a heat and electrical insulator before its adverse effect on human health was recognised? (8) |
| CHICAGOBULLS | Basketball team based in Illinois ranked by Forbes as the fourth most valuable NBA team in 2018 with a valuation of $2.6 billion: 2 wds. |
| NEWYORKKNICKS | Basketball team based in Manhattan ranked by Forbes as the most valuable NBA team in 2018 with a valuation of $3.6 billion: 3 wds. |
| STEPHCURRY | In the 2010s, this star led the Warriors to three NBA titles in Oakland, then one more in 2022 after the team moved to San Francisco |
| CLIPPERS | Basketball team based in Los Angeles which has never made the NBA finals (8) |
| NETS | Basketball team based in Brooklyn, originally called the New Jersey Americans (4) |
| INNES | Sometimes referred to as 'the seventh Python', comedian Neil ... wrote the songs for Monty Python And The Holy Grail |
| WHITEHALL | London street recognised as the centre at the Government oi the United Kingdom (9) |
| HIKURANGI | Mountain recognised as the first point on the New Zealand mainland to see the sunrise (9) |
| RENS | All-Black team that won the first professional basketball championship, in 1939 |
| LAKERS | US basketball team based in Los Angeles (6) |
| HEAT | Basketball team based in Miami since 1988 (4) |
