| BRERETON | Hawthorn champion figured five premiership-winning teams 1980s-90s (8) |
| IANWALSH | Hooker in the Dragon's 1962-66 premiership winning teams (3,5) |
| GOODHUE | ABs midfielder figured five Crusaders Super title-winning campaigns 2017-23 (7) |
| THOMPSON | Geelong's 2007 and 2009 premiership winning coach, Mark ... (8) |
| BIRCHALL | 2008 and 201315 premiership winning Hawks half-back (5,8) |
| CHAMBERS | Melbourne Storm premiership winning centre had stint with Queensland Reds (8) |
| WATMOUGH | Manly rugby league premiership winning second-rower 2008, '11 (8) |
| ROBINSON | Sydney Roosters' three-time premiership-winning coach 2013-19 (8) |
| LOSTABET | Had to wear the winning team's jersey, say |
| TAMARACK | Tree, a hawthorn almost blocking path (8) |
| DUNSTALL | Hawthorn AFL great scored 1254 career goals (8) |
| QUICKSET | Hedging, especially hawthorn, grown from slips or cuttings (8) |
| WAVERLEY | Hawthorn training ground, ... Park (8) |
| DORMOUSE | From the Anglo-Norman for "sleepy one", a somnolent squirrel-like rodent nesting in woven bark and honeysuckle and feeding on berries, nuts and the blossoms of hawthorn, oak, sycamore and willow (8) |
| COCKSPUR | Word for a spike on a leg of a fighting male game fowl; a catch on a casement window; barnyard millet or orchard-grass; or, an American hawthorn armed with long spines (8) |
| MAHOGANY | Log hut built in hawthorn wood |
| REGGIE | Jackson who was on five World Series-winning teams in the 1970s |
| LEIGH | Hawthorn's 1983 VFL premiership winning captain, ... Matthews (5) |
| TEO | Premiership-winning forward back at Broncos after successful five-year rugby stint (3) |
| MORGAN | North Queensland Cowboys' 2015 NRL premiership-winning five-eighth (6) |
