| ABERDEEN | Scottish football club sometimes known as 'The Dons' (8) |
| BOWL | Sweep off one's feet as the Don Juan of Cockneys? (4,4) |
| PORTO | Portuguese football club sometimes known as the 'Dragons' (5) |
| SWANSEA | ....... City, football club sometimes known as 'The Jacks' (7) |
| LEANDERCLUB | Rowing club sometimes known as the pink palace (7,4) |
| STADE | ..... Francais, French club sometimes known as the 'Pink Army' based in Paris (5) |
| COPPELIA | Ballet sometimes known as The Girl With the Enamel Eyes (8) |
| SARAJEVO | Ancient city sometimes known as 'the Jerusalem of the Balkans' (8) |
| NIGHTJAR | Nocturnal bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, sometimes known as the goatsucker (8) |
| STRINGER | Western Bulldogs forward traded to the Dons in 2017, Jake ... (8) |
| TEACHERS | The Don's fixing the races (8) |
| SENTDOWN | What happened to the students when the dons went mad? (4,4) |
| HEDONIST | The Don is too much of a libertine (8) |
| ACADEMIC | A rogue getting webmail, even letters and top copies from The Don (8) |
| CRIMINAL | Heads to Catania, Rimini, Imola and Milan working for The Don (8) |
| SKYE | Sometimes known as The Misty Isle, this is the largest of the Inner Hebrides islands |
| OKAPI | Mammal native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes known as the 'zebra giraffe' (5) |
| SIENA | Italian football club based in Tuscany sometimes known as 'The White and Blacks' (5) |
| PERU | National football country from South America sometimes known as 'The Incas' (4) |
| ORIBI | Small antelope of the African savannah sometimes known as the palebuck (5) |
