| HUTH | Robert ...., former German centre-back (4) |
| MADELEINE | Cake cooked by the French with a German centre (9) |
| ESSENTIAL | Key German centre turned tail (9) |
| ORBS | Balls trapped by Middlesbrough man, centre-back? (4) |
| SAMI | ... Hyypia, Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen and Finland centre back (4) |
| ISSA | Pierre -_, Marseille, Watford and South Africa centre back (4) |
| ALAS | Mo Salah's centre-back expresses regret (4) |
| STAM | Manchester United, Lazio and Netherlands centre back (4) |
| ANTI | Opposition recruit Napoli's centre back (4) |
| BUSH | Centre-back bagging second for Forest (4) |
| BABB | Phil ...., Coventry City, Liverpool and Republic of Ireland centre back (4) |
| BALI | I go to a research centre back in a resort island (4) |
| MARC | ____ Guehi, Crystal Palace centre back who debuted for England in 2022 (4) |
| DIAS | Ruben, Portuguese centre-back signed by Manchester City in 2020 (4) |
| EARNSHAW | Robert ........ , former Wales, Nottingham Forest and Cardiff striker (8) |
| RUNCIE | Robert -, former Archbishop of Canterbury |
| MACNEIL | Newsman Robert, former PBS partner of Jim Lehrer |
| HOLGATE | Robert --, former Archbishop of York (7) |
| PLANT | Robert, former lead singer with rock group Led Zeppelin (5) |
| OPRON | Robert, former design chief at Citroen (5) |
