| HAWICK | Town in the Scottish Borders whose rugby team plays at Mansfield Park (6) |
| FIFTEEN | Rugby team play in fine fettle, apart from second half (7) |
| KEAN | Jake .... , Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper who spent time on loan at Mansfield in 2016-17 (4) |
| LEE | 2011-14 FC Halifax Town, 2014-19 Millwall, 2019-21 Stoke and 2021 -24 Sheffield Wednesday striker between spells at Mansfield (3,7) |
| GREGORY | 2011-14 FC Halifax Town, 2014-19 Millwall, 2019-21 Stoke and 2021 -24 Sheffield Wednesday striker between spells at Mansfield (3,7) |
| EXETER | This city's rugby union team play at Sandy Park (6) |
| KELSO | Market town in the Scottish Borders at the confluence of the Rivers Teviot and Tweed (5) |
| RECIPE | "A large income is the best ___ for happiness I ever heard of", Jane Austen, Mansfield Park. (6) |
| AUSTEN | Jane ---, novelist whose works include Mansfield Park and Emma (6) |
| NORRIS | Surname of Fanny Price's aunt in Mansfield Park (6) |
| PEEBLES | Town in the Scottish Borders. that is the birthplace of singer-songwriter Eric Bogle |
| ABERDONIAN | Native of the Scottish city in which the Dandies football team play at home at the Pittodrie Stadium |
| MELROSE | Town in the Scottish Borders with a Cistercian abbey that was repaired by Sir Walter Scott in 1822 (7) |
| SEEMLY | See team play regularly to get fit |
| JEDBURGH | Town in the Scottish borders, home to Queen Mary's House (8) |
| NORTHERNIRELAND | Country whose national football team plays at Windsor Park (8,7) |
| ROZEMA | Patricia ___, Canadian director of "Mansfield Park" (1999) |
| EMBETH | Davidtz of "Mansfield Park" |
| STHELENS | Town in Merseyside, England, whose rugby league team is the Saints (2,6) |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels who lived at Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders and married on Christmas Eve in 1797 (5) |
