Complete Clue List
Across
1. Shot not quite on target (4-4)
5. Professional ice hockey player from Vancouver (6)
9. Yacht races (8)
10. CAGIER arrangement for Jiu-Jitsu style that prioritises real-life self-defence scenarios (anag., 6)
12. Like a score of 10 out of 10 (5)
13. Female scullers (9)
14. Groups of people in some team sports (12)
18. Equally skilful with each hand, a useful ability in many sports (12)
21. Cricketer scheduled to bat when one of the current batsmen is dismissed (4,3,2)
23. Speed from an athlete (5)
24. RE: BANS, upset professional basketballers (anag., abbrev., 6)
25. Ruling from a Television Match Official (8)
26. Fencer who needed a second helping? (US spelling, 6)
27. Agreed with the 25A (8)
Down
1. Winter Olympics event: ____ combined (6)
2. Outdoor sportsman (6)
3. Non-traditional golf club (5,4)
4. Practicing pugilism (12 or 6,6 or 6-6)
6. Archer's projectile (5)
7. Rare; like Wilt Chamberlain's 1962 100-point total in a professional basketball game (8)
8. Enthusiasm and eagerness for a sport (8)
11. Competitors thought likely to win (12 or 5,7 or 5-7)
15. Boundary at the side of the playing field in rugby or soccer (9)
16. In cue sports, struck one object ball, followed by another (8)
17. Software for Microsoft's home console that may include sports, like baseball and golf (sing., 4,4)
19. Help a team-mate to score (6)
20. Hit on the head by a pitch (slang, 6)
22. In motorsports, rejoin race traffic after a pitstop (5)