| ROVERS | In their inaugural match, the Barbarians beat Hartlepool - - - on 27 December 1890 (6) |
| PETERPAN | (GKN) Play first staged at London's Duke of York's Theatre on 27 December 1904 (5.3) |
| WOUNDEDKNEE | The site of a creek in South Dakota where between 150 and 300 Lakota people were massacred in December 1890 (7,4) |
| GAME | Cut risk, perhaps, for inaugural match (7,4) |
| OPENING | Cut risk, perhaps, for inaugural match (7,4) |
| HUNGUP | One of The Barbarians leads with Garryowen - unfortunately prop pegged it down the line for the wind to catch (4,2) |
| GEMINI | Star sign of EastEnder Kim Fox, whose birthday is on 27 May (6) |
| CASTRO | President-elect of Honduras, due to succeed Juan Orlando Hernandez on 27 January (7,6) |
| RUSSIA | Team that finished the Euro 2020 group stage in 4th place in its group despite winning one match-the only last-place team to do so |
| COLOUR | Like bumpers and wing mirrors that match the paintwork (6) |
| THULSA | Nemesis of Conan the Barbarian, ___ Doom |
| CONANS | O'Brien and the Barbarian |
| SINEWY | Like Conan the Barbarian |
| TIEPIN | It might match the cuff links |
| KEEPUP | Match the pacemaker (4,2) |
| ODDONE | Doesn't match the rest (3,3) |
| COETZEE | J.M. ___ Waiting for the Barbarians author who is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| GOTHS | The barbarians who invaded Rome in the 3rd-5th cent. (5) |
| SALVAGES | Saves the student in the barbarians' grip (8) |
| PHILISTINE | Break hip and keel over in Spain with one of the Barbarians (10) |
