| BESIDES | Starts for Bristol and Exeter teams too (7) |
| TOMATOES | Teams too erratic to get these fruits (8) |
| ALASTAIRHIGNELL | 2008 winner of the BBC's Helen Rollason Award who played rugby for Bristol and England and cricket for Gloucestershire |
| NELMES | Barry ...... , 1975-78 England prop who played for Bristol and Cardiff (6) |
| FURNESS | Rachel _, Northern Irish footballer who plays for Bristol City WFC (7) |
| PROBLEM | Difficulty for Bristol emporium when devoid of contents (7) |
| HILAIRE | Vince ___, Crystal Palace and England U-21 midfielder who later played for Luton, Portsmouth, Leeds, Stoke and Exeter (7) |
| ARSCOTT | Luke -, former Bristol Bears and Exeter Chiefs fullback (7) |
| SEETHES | Boils and cooks these starts for early supper (7) |
| EXTREME | Minehead and Exeter turning radical (7) |
| JENKINS | Wales and Exeter Chiefs lock (6,7) |
| FRIENDS | What happens when weekend starts for Phoebe et al (7) |
| DAYCARE | Nursing and changing starts for Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, acclaimed young royal arrival (3,4) |
| DEFUNCT | Dead clever, securing university starts for numerous classicists |
| TRAINEE | Entire action starts for one learning |
| LINEAGE | Time limit starts for ancestry |
| BARK | Heading for Bristol on one vessel or another (4) |
| SUSPENSIONBRIDGE | Engineered design so super in heading for Bristol? |
| OMAR | Roam freely for Bristol Bears defence & collision coach Mouneimne (4) |
| RICHLANE | Prosperous road for Bristol Bears full-back (4,4) |
