Complete Clue List
Across
1. A baseball term for a player striking out 4 times in a single game! (6,8)
9. Pittsburgh Steelers player '___ Brown' was NFL receiving yards leader in 2014 (7)
10. ' Akinoshima ___' former Japanese sumo wrestler known as the "giant killer" (7)
11. '___ Grace Torres' swam for USA at Olympic Games in 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008 (4)
12. 'Dina ___' was the 2016 European Athletics 200 metres women's champion (5-5)
14. 'Newcastle ___' an English rugby union team based at Kingston Park (7)
15. 'War ___' American racehorse, winner of the 1937 Triple Crown (7)
16. Geyser field in the Andes of northern Chile, largest in the southern hemisphere (2,5)
19. Loud but short piece of music used to signal the arrival of special sportsmen (7)
21. The captain of Boston Bruins ice hockey team 1954-55 (2,8)
22. '___ Jungmark' won highjump silver at 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships (4)
24. Venture founded in 2011 by Jordan Fliegel to connect athletes with coaches (5-2)
25. General manager of Chicago White Sox from 1961-1970 (2,5)
26. Member of Canadian women's team pursuit cycling team at both 2012 and 2016 Olympics (6,8)
Down
1. In soccer a method of ranking teams in a league who are on equal points (4,10)
2. In American football another term for a 'backward' pass (7)
3. '___ Leino' Finnish freestyle wrestler who won a Gold Medal at the 1920 Olympic Games (4)
4. The marriage partners of any sports players (7)
5. ' ___ Shiffrin' the 2014 women's Winter Olympic slalom champion (7)
6. New Zealand's first women's cricket captain in the 1934/35 test match (4,6)
7. 'Henri ___' winner of the the inaugural Monte Carlo Rally in 1911 (7)
8. The 2016 Olympic women's shot put champion (8,6)
13. English association football club based at the City Ground, "___ Forest" (10)
17. Italian name for the region of which Florence is the capital city (7)
18. A type of slow bowling in the game of cricket (3-4)
19. 'Owen ___' Saracens and England International (from 2012) rugby union player (7)
20. West Bromwich and Brighton & Hove football clubs (7)
23. African American tennis player who was Wimbledon champion in 1975, Arthur ___ (4)