| BACKROW | Numbers 6,7 and 8 on a rugby team are collectively referred to as the ___ ___. (4,3) |
| THREESISTERS | Corn, beans and squash ...crops collectively referred to as the '___ ___' in Indigenous cuisine |
| NOTREDAME | Indiana university, founded by a priest in 1842, whose sports teams are collectively 'the Fighting Irish' (5,4) |
| LOOSE | The number one shirt on a rugby team is worn by the ___head prop. (5) |
| WARRINGTON | In a fight, beginning to take on a rugby team (10) |
| WALLABIES | Rugby team are fools to include sailor (9) |
| THREEQUARTERS | Four players in the rugby team are not the whole (5,8) |
| OCEANIA | How Australasia, the Malay Archipelago and the islands of the Pacific are collectively known (7) (7) |
| CUTICLE | The locust is covered with a special kind of skin which is referred to as the ___ |
| BENELUX | How Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium are collectively known (7) (7) |
| ISLANDS | They are collectively linked to Leeward on Stanier engine 45614 (7) |
| EMERALD | Ireland is poetically referred to as the ___ Isle (7) |
| PLUMAGE | A bird's feathers are collectively what? (7) |
| ANEARLY | Dismissal almost breaking a rugby team (2,5,4) |
| ASARULE | A rugby team embracing their sport generally (2,1,4) |
| SNOWMAN | Slang for eight on a hole (7) |
| STAR | Symbol below the 7 on a phone and above the 8 on a keyboard |
| NONSUCH | ? Palace, royal residence built for Henry VIII on the Epsom road near Ewell, Surrey (7) |
| PACK | A group or bobbery of hounds; a bundle borne by a sumpter; a bale of wool; forwards in a rugby team; or, cosmetic mud applied to the face (4) |
| REDS | The Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war are often referred to as the ___ (4) |
