| KILDUNNE | Red Rose and Women's Rugby Player of 2024 (5,8) |
| ELLIE | Red Rose and Women's Rugby Player of 2024 (5,8) |
| BURNS | Celebrated annually with a supper on his birthday of January 25, Scotland's national bard whose poems include A Red, Red Rose and Ae Fond Kiss (5) |
| SIMILES | "My Luve's like a red red rose" and others |
| SUSANBANTHONY | US abolitionist and women's rights activist (1820-1906) (5,1,7) |
| VALENTINESDAY | Cards, red roses or chocolates are sent to express affection on this February occasion (10,3) |
| PINETREE | Nickname of NZ's Rugby Player of the Century 1999 (8) |
| GALLICA | An ancient or old-fashioned variety of fragrant bloom, such as the blush-pink Duchesse d'Angouleme, the cassis Cardinal de Richelieu or the crimson apothecary's rose, aka Officinalis or red rose of La |
| MCCAW | NZ's three-time World Rugby Player of the Year (5) |
| APROPOS | Fitting a rugby player of exceptional size |
| BARRETT | All Blacks fly-half; 2016 World Rugby Player of the Year (7) |
| BEAUDEN | All Blacks fly-half; 2016 World Rugby Player of the Year (7) |
| RETALLICK | All Blacks' 2014 World Rugby Player of the Year (9) |
| MACON | Portmanteau word for smoked and salted mutton; or, an appellation of red, rose or white wine produced in the most southerly Burgundian terroir (5) |
| SALLY | - - - Horrox, World Rugby's director of women's rugby (5) |
| LAIDLAW | Greig - - - , the second Scot to be nominated for World Rugby Player of the year after Mike Blair (7) |
| CAFE | The Red Rose one you'll remember from The Fureys: volte-face! (4) |
| LANCASHIRE | English county whose symbol is a red rose (10) |
| REREDOS | Variegated red rose on screen (7) |
| INCANADA | "Only ___ you say? Pity!" (Red Rose ad phrase) |
