| WORLDSERIES | In North American baseball, a best-of-seven playoff between the two winning teams in the major leagues (5,6) |
| REGGIE | Jackson who was on five World Series-winning teams in the 1970s |
| NLCS | 2006 playoff between the Cards and Mets, for short |
| PELE | Only player on more than two winning World Cup teams |
| HIGHLOW | Poker variant with two winning hands (... last and first 3 letters) |
| SWEEP | Win a best-of-seven in four, say |
| CHOKE | Blow a best-of-seven series after being up three games, e.g. |
| LOMBARDI | * Super Bowl I and II winning coach |
| KANITKAR | The coach of the winning team in the recently-concluded U-19 World Cup cricket tournament in the West Indies. (8) |
| INNING | In baseball, a division of the game consisting of a turn at bat and a turn in the field for each side |
| HOMERUN | In baseball, a hit which allows the batter to make a complete circuit of the bases (4,3) |
| EDDIELAKE | American baseball shortstop who appeared in 835 games in the Major Leagues over 11 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers |
| OILER | Member of a four-time Stanley Cup-winning team in the 1980s |
| PITCHER | A large earthen jug; any ewer; an urn-like insect trap of a carnivorous plant such as the huntsman's cup; or, in baseball, a "twirler" (7) |
| ODD | Like the number of games in a "best of" series |
| HALFADOZEN | Number of the teams in the Six Nations, for instance, get fair share that's key to the rest and has a bearing (4,1,5) |
| FINLAND | Two teams didn't make the qualification cut for all third-place teams in the Euro 2020 group stage. One was Slovakia. Which was the other? |
| NBAPAINT | Social media account famous for its illustrations of players and teams in the style of a certain Microsoft drawing program |
| DESIGNATEDHITTER | In baseball, a player who bats in place of the pitcher |
| OUTS | In baseball a double play results in two of them |
