Crossword

ACROSS

1. Stormers' Springboks prop who moved to Saracens this year (4) 3. 'The Hawick Hardman', Scotland prop on the 1955 and 1959 Lions tours (6) 7. Leicester prop whose spinal cord was severed in a 2005 practice session (7) 8. 1927 England fly-half debutant - still his country's youngest ever player (5) 9. Broughton Park flanker with 43 England caps from 1971 to 1980 (5) 11. Romanian fly-half who amassed 316 points in 60 Tests, 1997-2007 (5) 13. Club side from Auckland, Cardiff or Bedford (5) 15. Ireland fly-half transferred from Leinster to Bordeaux Begles this year (7) 16. Lock first given the captaincy of Leicester Tigers in 2014 (6) 17. Wales star whose record 76 scrumhalf caps was surpassed by Mike Phillips (4)

DOWN

1. Surname of S.African twins, centre, Dan, and full-back, Jesse (5) 2. City for which Archibald Leitch designed the Arms Park grandstands (7) 4. Kiwi back-row forward with Edinburgh and, from 2016, London Irish (5) 5. Stade Francais centre awarded his first France cap v Italy last season (5) 6. Name popularly given to the North Stand at Kingsholm (4) 10. Former 74-cap fly-half of Uruguay and US Tours, elder brother of Sebastian (7) 11. France scrum-half released this summer from Stade Francais to Pau (5) 12. Leinster's ex-Munster and London Irish lock studying at Cambridge (5) 13. Club and country team-mate of 9 Across - also a centre with Sale (4) 14. Wing born in Middlesbrough in 1980, a Scotland League and Union cap (5)