Crossword

ACROSS

1. Lytham St Annes club served by Brian Ashton and Bill Beaumont (5) 4. 26-year-old Carcassonne prop transferred from Brive in 2014 (5) 7. - - - Park, losing John Player Cup finalists of 1975 and 1976 (5) 8. UCD, Wanderers and Ireland full-back with 22 caps from 1973 to 1978 (5) 9. Ex-England flanker - a scorer in Sale’s 2006 Premiership final

triumph (4) 10. 2007 World Cup-winning captain and CEO of Durban’s Sharks to

2016 (4) 14. Salisbury-born London Irish utility back snapped up by Bath last year

(5) 17. France fly-half who coached the national U20 side after his 2008

retirement (7) 18. Scorer of 28 points against England in the 2015 World Cup Pool A

debacle (5) 19. Surname of 1980s Pumas twin wingers, Pedro and Juan (5)

DOWN

1. England’s IRB Junior Player of the Year, 2011 (4) 2. 23-year-old Blackheath back row who joined London Welsh in June (6) 3. Australia’s 1999 World Cup skipper (5) 4. ‘Chainsaw’, versatile Scotland full-back, born in New Zealand in 1973 (5) 5. Lock re-signed this year by Jersey from Gloucester’s academy (4) 6. Racing Metro and France flanker awarded his first cap in 2012 with Biarritz (6) 9. Bath prop with an Aussie father who joined in 2015 from London Irish (6) 11. Gloucester and England No.8 once of Llanelli (6) 12. Stalwart Sale Sharks wing contracted to Leicester from 2016 (5) 13. Scotland scrum-half who led Bath to a 1998 Heineken Cup final win

(5) 15. Recycling scrimmage in which the ball is held up off the floor (4) 16. Treviso’s Albanian hooker first capped by Italy earlier this year (4)