| PROPHET | Rugby player, the fantastic visionary (7) |
| PROPEL | Rugby player the Spanish drive forward (6) |
| JONAHLOMU | Rugby player, the youngest ever All Black on his 1994 debut |
| NOSIDE | For rugby players the end is up, having packed swelling |
| PARISSE | Sergio ....... . 2002-19 Italy rugby union player; the country's most- capped player (7) |
| TOASHES | With a hostess improperly chasing the above tennis player, the end is inevitable (5,2,5) |
| WALLABY | For a rugger player, the way to capture a bouncing ball (7) |
| CEZANNE | French artist identified with postImpressionism and also as a forerunner of Cubism whose paintings include House in Provence, The Card Players, The Basket of Apples and Bathers (7) |
| LINEMAN | Certain football player (the last 3 letters in this answer ...) |
| STANLEE | Cocreator of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men: 2 wds. |
| ENEMIES | Doctor Doom and Galactus, to the Fantastic Four |
| ELASTIC | Like Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four |
| FADE | Golf shot that causes the ball to deviate to the right (or, for a left-handed player, the left) (4) |
| THESPIAN | The player's the one in a tizzy (8) |
| ASHES | With a hostess improperly chasing the above tennis player, the end is inevitable (5,2,5) |
| ORR | Only to Art win Ross player the and Norris trophies in the same season |
| MISCASTS | Gives player the wrong job to address tackling all the players (8) |
| FELIX | Canadian tennis player; the runner-up at the 2025 Dubai Tennis Championships, _ Auger-Aliassime (5) |
| ZHAOXINTONG | Chinese snooker player; the first Asian World Snooker Champion (4,7) |
| LUTENIST | Player, the rest of the eleven and I engaged in lechery |
