| BEDIVERE | Knight of the Round Table who threw the sword Excalibur into the lake (8) |
| LANCELOT | In Arthurian legend, Knight of the Round Table who was the lover of Queen Guinevere (8) |
| GAWAIN | Knight of the Round Table who is the nephew of King Arthur |
| ARTHUR | Which legendary king pulled the sword Excalibur from the stone? (6) |
| AVALON | Legendary island on which the sword Excalibur was forged (6) |
| DECANTER | One at the dinner table who pricks hypocrisy? |
| BRANCA | Dodger who threw the pitch Bobby Thomson hit for the "shot heard 'round the world" |
| UNCALLED | Threw the towel back out again? (8) |
| TEENAGER | Young person threw the green tea out (8) |
| TURNEDON | Attacked just as one threw the switch (6,2) |
| YATITTLE | QB who threw a record-tying seven touchdown passes in a single game (1962) |
| GOOSEGOSSAGE | Yankees reliever with a bird nickname who threw the pitch in the Pine Tar Incident: 2 wds. |
| OSAGE | ___ River, tributary of the Missouri River in the US that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoi |
| ERIS | Greek goddess who threw the Apple of Discord |
| LARSEN | Pitcher who threw the only perfect game in a World Series |
| SAIN | Three-time All-Star pitcher Johnny who threw the first major league pitch to Jackie Robinson |
| NOMO | Ace who threw the first no-hitter at Denver's Coors Field in 1996 |
| LADYOFTHELAKE | Enchantress who gave King Arthur his sword, Excalibur (4,2,3,4) |
| JANETFRAME | Author of An Angel at My Table, who was born in Dunedin in 1924 and died there in 2004 (5,5) |
| MATADOR | Hero with a cape, and the subject of a Gretchen Peters song with the line "I knew it when I threw the rose" |