| KLUIVERT | Premier hat-trick Who became League of penalties the history first on player to November score in a 30, 2024? (8) |
| ANH | In Party Tricks, who played Charlotte Wynn? (First name) |
| TRACTOR | Leaders in the ruck bearing down on player that's powerful on the field (7) |
| ANECDOTE | From "things unpublished", word for a secret history first, now an amusing story of an incident of private life (8) |
| TARR | Modernist novel by Wyndham Lewis first serialised in The Egoist from April 1916 to November 1917 |
| PASTURES | Makes sure of history first for the green fields for example (8) |
| FORWARD | Send on player likely to score goals? (7) |
| TRIUMPH | Historic UK automobile marque, with convoluted ownership history, first building bikes, then motorbikes, and finally cars from 1921 to '84 (7) |
| CUTAFINEFIGURE | Look pretty good to slash the number of penalties (3,1,4,6) |
| LORDJIM | Novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900 |
| KIMCAMPBELL | First and only female prime minister of Canada, serving from June 25 to November 4, 1993 (3,8) |
| PETERCAPALDI | Tea clipper ad broadcast on player of 3Dn 23Ac (5,7) |
| YOUNEVERCANTELL | Call every tune on player? One can't be certain (3,5,3,4) |
| PROMPTER | One who urges on players from the wings |
| BAGPIPES | Smoker in trousers drones on player's shoulder (8) |
| SHOOTOUT | Dismissive remark to Newmarket spy brings series of penalties perhaps |
| TARIFF | Argument about a right scale of penalties (6) |
| ARCHIPELAGO | Canaries perhaps shrewd changing goalie - first of penalties held |
| KERENSKY | Alexander ___, leader of the Russian provisional government from July to November 1917 (8) |
| PADEREWSKI | Polish pianist and composer who was Prime Minister from January to November 1919 (10) |
