| MEITE | Yakou ..... , Ivory Coast and Reading winger (5) |
| OSTER | John ___, 1997-2004 Wales and 2005-2008 Reading winger (5) |
| SIAKA | 2000-2015 Ivory Coast and 2013-2015 Montpellier defender (5,5) |
| TIENE | 2000-2015 Ivory Coast and 2013-2015 Montpellier defender (5,5) |
| TOWNS | Luton and Reading, say (5) |
| DEMEL | Guy ___ , former Ivory Coast and West Ham defender (5) |
| EBOUE | Emmanuel ..... , 2004-13 Ivory Coast and 2004-11 Arsenal defender (5) |
| SERGE | Ivory Coast and Nottm Forest defender (5,6) |
| BAMBA | Sol ..... , 2008-14 Ivory Coast and 2016-21 Cardiff defender (5) |
| KALOU | Salomon ..... , 2007-17 Ivory Coast and 2006-12 Chelsea attacker (5) |
| SAGBO | Yannick ..., 2010-12 Ivory Coast and 2013-15 Hull striker (5) |
| TOURE | 2004-2015 Ivory Coast and 2010-2018 Manchester City midfielder (5) |
| TIOTE | Cheik ..... , late Ivory Coast and Newcastle midfielder (5) |
| ERNST | Rudolf ?, painter born in 1854 whose works include The Meal, The Metal Workers and Reading the Koran (5) |
| LASER | Word (originally an acronym) for a beam of light used for tasks including eye surgery, cutting metal and reading the information on CDs (5) |
| SOLAR | Somebody outrageously starts knocking back most of the drink and reading from The Sun (5) |
| SONKO | Ibrahima ..... , former Senegal defender whose clubs included Harlow Town and Reading (5) |
| DOYLE | Kevin ....., former Ireland striker whose clubs included Colorado Rapids, Wolves and Reading (5) |
| KIPRE | Cedric ___, Ivory Coast and Reims defender; 2025-2026 Ipswich Town loanee (5) |
| SOAPS | Ivory, Coast and others |
