| GLOSSOP | Team that finished bottom of the 1899- 1900 Football League First Division (7) |
| AIRDRIE | ....... United, football club who finished bottom of the 2012-13 Scottish First Division (7) |
| ISRAEL | Country that finished bottom of Group 2 in their only football World Cup Finals appearance in 1970 (6) |
| ASTON | 1980/81 Football League First Division winners (5,5) |
| VILLA | 1980/81 Football League First Division winners (5,5) |
| HORNUNG | EW, author of the 1899 novel The Amateur Cracksman (7) |
| AMATEUR | 'The --', 1899 novel by E.W. Hornung (7,9) |
| LEOPARD | Big cat spotted in Potchefstroom, home of the 2021 Currie Cup First Division champions (7) |
| LORDJIM | Joseph Conrad novel first published in 1899-1900 |
| PEASOUP | Ape moving like that finished in thick fog (3,4) |
| THEBILL | Long-running TV police procedural series that finished in 2010 (3,4) |
| APOLLON | Limassol, 2024-25 Cypriot First Division club coached by Adrian Gul'a (7) |
| METS | Team that finished last out of ten teams in each of its first four seasons |
| RUSSIA | Team that finished the Euro 2020 group stage in 4th place in its group despite winning one match-the only last-place team to do so |
| SOX | Team that finished last in the AL East in 2012 |
| NESBIT | Author of the 1899 children's book "The Wouldbegoods" |
| CONRAD | Writer of the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness (6) |
| SCHNITZLER | Arthur, author of the 1899 one-act play The Green Cockatoo (10) |
| LIVERPOOL | This most successful English football club, nicknamed The Reds, has finished top of the First Division eighteen times |
| GENK | K.R.C. -, football team that won the 2018-19 Belgian First Division A (4) |
