| PREMIERSHIP | Rugby union league in England (11) |
| EVERTON | Always have to get new team into the Premier League in England (7) |
| NEPIA | NZ rugby union league player, one of the most famous Maori players, born Wairoa 1905 (5) |
| TRADE | Women's ___ Union League (group that, in 1909, coordinated a strike by 20,000 women workers in New Y |
| UNDERTHESEA | He sauntered around following leagues in literature (5,3,3) |
| TRUSTFUL | With confidence, the football union league leaders embrace decay (8) |
| FK | Union/league points scoring medium, abbrev (2) |
| HUDDERSFIELD | Town in West Yorkshire that was the birthplace of rugby league in 1895 (12) |
| ARSENAL | Football club based in Islington; the first club from the south of England to join the Football League, in 1893 (7) |
| PLO | Grp. granted full membership in the Arab League in 1976 |
| WHORL | Who is close to rugby league in Ring? (5) |
| CONE | David who led the American League in wins in 1998 |
| NBA | League in which Lusia Harris was drafted in 1977 |
| LINEOUT | Rugby term coined by league in Spain revealed (4-3) |
| LEN | Pitcher Barker who led the American League in strikeouts in 1980 and 1981 |
| ALSO | In addition, starts Arab League in the middle of Passover (4) |
| PROPELLER | Driving force of sporting people adopting Rugby League, in parts meeting resistance (9) |
| MANTLE | Mickey, baseball player who was Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1956, 1957 and 1962 ( |
| SOSA | Player who failed to lead the league in all three seasons in which he hit 60+ home runs |
| HEERENVEEN | Dutch town in Friesland whose football team qualified for the Champions League in 2000 (10) |
