| BACKMARKER | Support for the scorer at the rear of the field (4-6) |
| RUBENS | Artist could be among the scorers at cricket (6) |
| PUSKAS | Ferenc, Hungarian footballer after whom FIFA named an annual award for the scorer of the most beautiful goal that year (6) |
| ASSIST | Creditable help for the scorer (6) |
| FOUGHTBACK | Did some self-defence at the rear of the keep, say? (6,4) |
| DROPKICKER | Exclude someone stopping scorer at Murrayfield (4-6) |
| SILVERBACK | An older male gorilla with grey hair below the rear of the neck (10) |
| ROSSI | Paolo ....., top scorer at the final stages of the FIFA World Cup in 1982 (5) |
| LINEKER | Former England footballer who won the Golden Boot as top scorer at the 1986 World Cup (4,7) |
| GARY | Former England footballer who won the Golden Boot as top scorer at the 1986 World Cup (4,7) |
| KEMPES | Mario ?, Argentina 1978 FIFA World Cup Final winner; top scorer at the tournament (6) |
| LATO | Grzegorz .... , top scorer at the 1974 World Cup Finals (4) |
| RONALDO | Brazilian who was top scorer at the 2002 Fifa World Cup |
| BACKROW | Support argument of forwards at the rear of the scrum (4,3) |
| ADAMS | Josh, Welsh rugby union winger who was top try scorer at the 2019 World Cup in Japan (5) |
| PERICARDIUM | Membranous sac that surrounds the heart, anchored by ligaments to the central part of the diaphragm and the rear of the sternum (11) |
| SKEG | A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost (4) |
| RETINA | The lining of the rear of the eye-ball (6) |
| ASTERN | In the navy, it's set out at the rear of the ship (6) |
| HAMILTON | London oar might break for Irish scorer at 1991 World Cup (6,8) |
