| SYLAPPS | Pole vaulter who became an MP in Ontario |
| ROTHSCHILD | Lionel Nathan, Baron de --, 1808-79, banker who became an MP (10) |
| LAIDLAW | All Black who later became an MP and radio host (7) |
| ARMAND | ___ Duplantis Swedish pole vaulter who set the world record in 2022 |
| ARMANDDOPLANTIS | U.S. born Swedish pole vaulter who set a world record in 2020 (6,9) |
| BUBKA | Sergey . . . , pole vaulter who was the first to clear six metres (5) |
| EMMAGEORGE | Australian pole vaulter who set 12 world records between 1995 and 1999 (4,6) |
| MOON | Katie _, US pole vaulter who won a gold medal at the 2020 Olympics (4) |
| MOLLY | English pole vaulter who won a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, _ Caudery (5) |
| BENT | Like a pole vaulter's pole in action |
| RUNUP | Approach sprint of a long-jumper or pole-vaulter in athletics, or that of a bowler delivering a cricket ball (3-2) |
| ZODIAC | Gladiator played by British ex-pole vaulter Kate Staples in the 1990s TV show Gladiators (6) |
| APPS | Another Leaf great, he was also a politician and an Olympic pole vaulter |
| BAR | What a pole vaulter vaults over |
| DANA | Canadian pole vaulter Ellis |
| ENVELOP | Surround pole vaulter originally north-eastern returning (7) |
| TATIANAGRIGORIEVA | Leningrad-born Australian pole vaulter, 2000 Olympic runner-up (7,10) |
| DUPLANTIS | The record-holding pole vaulter nicknamed Mondo. (9) |
| SPRY | Adjective for a 70-year-old pole-vaulter |
| ATHLETE | The late horrible pole vaulter (7) |
