| JASONAKERMANIS | Western Bulldogs midfielder sacked in 2010 after leaking team information (5,9) |
| COVERT | Vera lying in bed after leaking American secret (6) |
| EXIGENCY | Demand from Eastern team information about unknown |
| BETTYWHITE | Veteran actress who got to host "Saturday Night Live" in 2010 after a grassroots campaign |
| POP | Nicknamed "1D," One Direction is the ___ band that soared to stardom in 2010 after their third-place finish on the UK's version of "The X Factor" 7KH 2QH |
| WORLD | As the ___ Turns (soap that ended in September 2010 after 54 years) |
| STRINGER | Western Bulldogs forward traded to the Dons in 2017, Jake ... (8) |
| TRELOAR | Ex-GWS and Magpies midfielder, at the Western Bulldogs from 2021 Adam ... (7) |
| EASTON | 2016 Grand Final winning Western Bulldogs captain, ... Wood (6) |
| COONEY | Western Bulldogs' 2008 Brownlow Medal winner (6) |
| LOBB | Ex-GWS ruckman at the Western Bulldogs from 2023, Rory ... (4) |
| SMORGUN | 1996a"2012 Western Bulldogs chairman, David ... (7) |
| NAUGHTON | Western Bulldogs player Aaron, known as "the AstroNaught" (8) |
| HYNES | Last name of the Sharks' Nicho, or the Western Bulldogs' Cooper (5) |
| CHARLES | Western Bulldogs' award, - Sutton Medal (7) |
| GRANT | Ineligible Western Bulldogs forward topped votes count for 1997 Brownlow Medal won by St Kilda's Robert Harvey (5) |
| PARDEW | Manager who took Crystal Palace to the FA Cup final in May 2016 and was sacked in December 2016 (6) |
| STLO | French city sacked in the Hundred Years War |
| CHARIVARI | Domestic help I changed - last two sacked in dreadful row |
| NOLAN | Kevin ---, Notts County playermanager sacked in 2018 (5) |
