| EALES | John ....., retired Australia second row and captain (5) |
| DAUGA | Benoit ....., France second row and No.8 forward capped 63 times 1964-72 (5) |
| LLOYD | John ....., retired British tennis player once married to Chris Evert (5) |
| COWER | Charlie beginning to emerge in terrible row and crouch in fear (5) |
| OARED | Had a row and shouted loudly after starting late (5) |
| LINER | Have a row and be right on the ship (5) |
| BURMA | Former name of a country on the Bay of Bengal known as Myanmar since 1989, site of Inle Lake where fishermen row and fish on one leg (5) |
| DRILL | Tool, plant row & training exercise (5) |
| EMOTE | Play to the back row and then some |
| TIERS | Rows and the sound they may end up in (5) |
| TABLE | Set of figures in rows and columns (5) |
| ROARS | Republican rows and yells (5) |
| ARRAY | Setup of rows and columns |
| THREE | First digit of this puzzle's subject, whose next four digits are the number of rows and then columns of the grid |
| SNOW | John ...., retired Sussex and England fast bowler (4) |
| TWODEEP | Having a front row and a back row |
| CASTOFF | What to do in a craft to start a row and what to do in a row to finish a craft (4,3) |
| REAGAN | Ronald _, US president and star of films Kings Row and The Hasty Heart (6) |
| PUNCHLINE | Judy's mate has a row, and that's the end of the gag (5,4) |
| MONTEREY | California port that is the setting for John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat (8) |