| EDDIEHOWE | Manager who has secured Newcastle United's first major domestic trophy in 70 years (5,4) |
| BRADFORDCITY | Team who in 2013 became the first ever team from the fourth tier of English football to reach a major domestic Wembley cup final |
| AWFUL | Terrible flaw in organisation allows in United's first |
| SUBSTRATUM | Reserves return food to Manchester United's first base (10) |
| RFK | D.C. United's first home |
| GARYLOCKE | Scottish football manager who has coached sides including Hearts and Kilmarnock (4,5) |
| ANCELOTTI | Italian football manager who has won the Champions League a record five times as a coach, plus two more as a player |
| ROBINSONS | Official soft drinks supplier at Wimbledon for more than 70 years (9) |
| EVENTUATE | Result from housing lapses in 70 cut rates (9) |
| BRETTHULL | Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1991 |
| NELLIEBLY | She went around the world in seventy-two days |
| SPOTLIGHT | Prominent position of trophy in modest setting |
| PORCUPINE | Animal or trophy in tree (9) |
| POTPOURRI | Trophy in France for Rhode Island collection? |
| GALTIER | Christophe, football manager who has won two Ligue 1 titles in France (7) |
| HARTE | Tyrone manager who has led his county to three All-Ireland titles. (5) |
| HAYES | Emma, English football manager who has led Chelsea to five Women's Super League titles (5) |
| ROGERMOORE | English actor, 1927-2017, knighted in 2003, who worked in films and TV for more than 70 years (5,5) |
| DOROTHYGALE | Character who, in a movie released nationally 70 years ago today, sang the ballad formed by the firs |
| GELDING | Funny Cide was the first one to win the Kentucky Derby in more than 70 years |
