| FACUP | The oldest national football competition in the world (2,3) |
| BANFF | Oldest national park in Canada, established in the Rocky Mountains of southern Alberta in 1885 (5) |
| FAIRS | The Inter-Cities ___ Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971 |
| SSAFA | Abbreviation of the UK's oldest national military charity (1,1,1,1,1) |
| DAMASCUS | The oldest (national) capital city in the world |
| RUBLE | Second-oldest national currency |
| YELLOWSTONE | The oldest national park in the United States (11) |
| HIQ | What is the oldest academic quiz competition in the U.S. (since 1948)? |
| MILLAR | David ......, Scottish cyclist who won the 'King of the Mountains' competition in the 1984 Tour de France (6) |
| OUTATE | Beat the competition in the hot dog gobbling contest |
| RELAYS | Penn ___, oldest track-and-field competition in the U.S. |
| TRACES | Follows the competition in the back street (6) |
| ATARIS | Consoles for participants in a short-lived "Swordquest" competition in the 1980s |
| SEVENTY | A score over fifty for the competition in the outskirts of Salisbury (7) |
| TONGARIRO | Oldest national park in New Zealand (1887), designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990 (9) |
| WORLDCUP | FIFA - -; international football competition next scheduled in Qatar in 2022 (5,3) |
| DURAND | This domestic football competition was first held in Shimla in 1888. (6) |
| BYE | Transfer to the next round of competition in the absence of an opponent (3) |
| BOATRACE | Snake to discover by investigation competition in the water (4-4) |
| RATRACE | Fierce competition in the rodent population? (3,4) |
