| KEPU | Wallabies veteran who in 2018 became first prop to play 100 rugby union Tests for Australia (4) |
| TROPPO | Prop to play around when disturbed in the mind |
| LUKA | Croatian footballer who in 2018 became the first player other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or in more than a decade (4,6) |
| GLEANS | Bit by bit gathers first props (6) |
| MODRIC | Croatian footballer who in 2018 became the first player other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or in more than a decade (4,6) |
| LUKAMODRIC | Croatian footballer who in 2018 became the first player other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or in more than a decade |
| FAWCETT | Millicent, British suffragist leader who in 2018 became the first woman given a statue in London's Parliament Square (7) |
| LAWTON | Tom ......, rugby union hooker who played 41 Tests for Australia 1983-89 (6) |
| WESSELS | Kepler ___, former cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia (7) |
| KEFU | Dynamic Queensland rugby union Test No 8 emerged late 1990s (4) |
| BEBB | Wales try scorer on his 1959 rugby union Test debut against England |
| TONY | ___ Hutchinson, Hollyoaks veteran who has been in the show since it began more than two decades ago (4) |
| ALUN | TV veteran who played John Southouse in Garrow's Law (4,9) |
| GRAY | Linda ___, Dallas veteran who appeared in Hollyoaks (4) |
| AGED | Like the veterans who started to back De Gaulle (4) |
| OWES | Needs to give props to |
| COWDREY | First man to play 100 Tests and first English cricketer to be given a peerage (7) |
| LAUD | Give props to |
| PALMSPRINGS | California city that, in 2018, became the first U.S. city to have an all-L.G.B.T. city council |
| RT | Kiwi batsman first to play 100 games in all three formats, initials (2) |
