| SMALL | James ....., first South African to be sent off in a rugby union international (5) |
| MORAN | First player to be sent off in the FA Cup Final (5) |
| TITCOMB | Mike ......, youngest man to referee a rugby union international, Wales against Scotland in the 1966 Five Nations Championship (7) |
| MULDER | Who became the first South African to score a triple hundred in Tests recently? (6) |
| ALLANDONALD | Former cricketer; the first South African to take 300 Test wickets (5,6) |
| THERON | Charlize _, first South African to win an acting Oscar (6) |
| ERROL | First non-white South African to earn Springbok cap, -- Tobias (5) |
| SERGE | ..... Blanco, retired France rugby union international full back (5) |
| PROPS | Numbers 1 and 3 in a rugby union side (5) |
| CHILE | First South American country to join the OECD, producer of a third of the world's copper (5) |
| JUDAS | Personifies the kiss of death as paramilitaries follow James the First south (5) |
| TENON | Connection suggesting a footballer's been sent off? |
| FRANO | NZ league and union international, ... Botica (5) |
| MASAI | African to breathe out audibly on old lady...(5) |
| AMLA | Hashim ___, first South African cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match (2012) |
| MULLERY | Alan ?, first England footballer to be sent off, against Yusgoslavia in 1968 (7) |
| MILLER | Only South African to captain the Kings XI Punjab, he is known for this quote: "If it is in the vee, hit it up a tree. If it is in the arc, hit it out of the park" |
| KESHAVMAHARAJ | Recently he became the first South African spinner to pick 200 wickets in Tests. (6,7) |
| HESS | Bad German in game about to be sent off (4) |
| MUNSTER | Falcao's last to be sent off for United in very large German city? (7) |
