Crossword

ACROSS

1. Racing Metro lock given his France debut v Argentina last year (4) 3. Bath’s ex-London Irish prop

with experience in Australia (6) 7. Geordie England flanker famed for his 1991 World Cup tackle on Cecillon (7) 8. Argentine city whose Martearena hosted England in 2009 and 2013 (5) 9. ___ de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire town with its ground in Nottingham Road (5) 11. Sale and England scum-half, a

1980 and 1983 Lions tourist (5) 13. 23-year-old Leinster and Ireland flanker, Josh van der ____ (5) 15. Chiefs and Bay of Plenty flanker who deputised for McCaw in 2009 (7) 16. Argentine-born Italy prop who joined Leicester Tigers in 2015 (6) 17. Former Saracens and Saxons wing shifted to Falcons in 2013 (4)

DOWN

1. Ireland’s 70-cap Bristol and Bath centre ending his Moseley coaching spell (5) 2 . Newest Treviso scrum-half first

capped by Italy in 2009 (7) 4. UK insurance company

sponsoring the Premiership (5) 5. Starting blindside flanker in Australia’s 2015 World Cup final side (5) 6. ___ Rugby, continental association with its headquarters in Hong Kong (4) 10. Italy fly-half born in Rotorua,

New Zealand in 1986 (7) 11. 22-year-old versatile back in all Uruguay’s 2015 World Cup finals games (5) 12. Bath’s ex-England U20s full-back/wing recruited from London Irish in 2015 (5) 13. England fly-half given his Leicester debut, at 16, in the 2009 LV= Cup (4) 14. Italy’s one-time Petrarca and Treviso front row at Leicester from 2014 (5)