| HOOKAH | Pipe for the rugby player, we hear (6) |
| HEADGEAR | Capital support for the rugby player (4,4) |
| SCRUM | Little credit in total for the rugby players (5) |
| EXCEED | Former top tennis player, we hear, to go over the top (6) |
| YUPPIE | Youth leader gets a turn with pipe for the city junior professional (6) |
| CEDING | Giving up selectlng the best players, we hear (6) |
| SECEDE | Withdraw from southeast fancied player, we hear |
| EXILES | The ____, a nickname for the rugby union team London Irish (6) |
| SCRAGS | Posies the rugby players wear (6) |
| SPRIGS | Posies the rugby players wear (6) |
| GOBACK | Shout of encouragement to one of the rugby players when they lose ground (2,4) |
| FLANGE | Protruding ridge on a pipe for example to give extra strength (6) |
| SEWER | Drain or pipe for the carriage of waste (5) |
| CHANTER | Melodious pipe for the precentor (7) |
| HOSE | Watering pipe for the garden |
| CONCERTPIANIST | Key player, we hear (7,7) |
| CONCEDE | Give up trick with top player, we hear (7) |
| CEDED | Surrendered like a good tennis player, we hear |
| CEDE | Top player, we hear, is to give way |
| CHEETAH | Fast runner, but bad player, we hear |
