| HARRIERS | Kidderminster, only Worcestershire club to have played in the Football League (8) |
| MARINERS | Other than the Nationals, only current Major League Baseball team never to have played in a World Series |
| MOLINARI | Brothers who have played in the Ryder Cup (8) |
| WOOLWICH | ___ Arsenal, club that joined the Football League in 1893 (8) |
| FARCICAL | Racial disturbances in the football club initially appear to be based on hollow formality (8) |
| CAFU | Who is the only player in football history to have played in three consecutive World Cup title clashes? (4) |
| DEIONSANDERS | Only athlete to have played in both the World Series and the Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
| INKSTAND | Headless jink in the football stadium is for the benefit of old writer (8) |
| MARINER | Member of the only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series |
| WARRIORS | Kidderminster ___, non-league football team (8) |
| TWO | Number of Belgians to have played in Ryder Cup (3) |
| ARSENAL | Football club based in Islington; the first club from the south of England to join the Football League, in 1893 (7) |
| HELSINKI | Brothels in Kidderminster pooling capital |
| ADS | What radio DJs may have played in the '90s |
| TEED | In golf, and in the past tense, what is it to have played the first stroke of the game? (4) |
| JIMTHORPE | Only Olympic gold medalist to have played Major League Baseball and National Football League: 2 wds. |
| MILAN | The only Italian football club to have never been relegated from the top flight (5,5) |
| GERMANY | Only country playing in Euro 2020 to have played the last 13 editions of the Euro, since 1972 |
| MALMO | Swedish city whose football team is the only Nordic club to have reached the European Cup final (5) |
| BEHAN | Charlie __, the second actor to have played Charlie Dean in Hollyoaks (5) |
