| Sport played by the Puerto Rico Islanders | 41 |
| World Cup game | 14 |
| Pelé's sport | 19 |
| Association football | 20 |
| What Germans call "Fussball" | 38 |
| Pele's game | 15 |
| Hamm's sport | 16 |
| Football, to Americans | 22 |
| Football, abroad | 16 |
| Beckham's sport | 19 |
| World's most popular outdoor game | 37 |
| Where passes are kicks | 22 |
| Where a goal is the goal | 24 |
| What head shots are used in | 27 |
| Type of mom | 11 |
| The Cosmos' game | 20 |
| Teamen's forte | 18 |
| Tampa Bay Rowdies' game | 27 |
| Suburban grade-school sport | 27 |
| Sport that requires you to use your head, sometimes | 51 |
| So-called "ballet of the masses" | 42 |
| Popular European sport | 22 |
| Pelé's sport | 23 |
| Our seventh most popular pastime | 32 |
| It's not a hands-on experience | 34 |
| It may require you to use your head | 35 |
| Goal-oriented activity? | 23 |
| Game with yellow and red cards | 30 |
| Game with a yellow card | 23 |
| Game with a team of 11 | 22 |
| Game with a goalkeeper | 22 |
| Game where you can really use your head? | 40 |
| Game that's not hands-on | 28 |
| Game played for kicks | 21 |
| Football, somewhere | 19 |
| Football, outside the U.S. | 26 |
| Football, in most places | 24 |
| Foosball's basis | 20 |
| D.C. United's game | 22 |
| Cosmos' game | 16 |
| British football | 16 |
| Beckham's ballgame | 22 |
| Andy Capp's sport | 21 |
| Activity in which people get their kicks | 40 |
| A sport where you can score by using your head | 46 |
| One who may comment on a beautiful head shot | 44 |
| Athenian teacher | 16 |
| World Cup bouncer | 17 |
| Goal-oriented thing | 19 |
| Shootout eyewitnesses, perhaps | 30 |
| Where to see kickers | 20 |
| Playing surface for World Cup participants | 42 |
| Ball choice | 11 |
| NFL field goal attempt, usually | 31 |
| Celebration dance after a goal? | 31 |
| After-school event, for some | 28 |
| "Rain" author who's a Beckham fan? | 48 |
| Suburban stereotype | 19 |
| Suburban parent, maybe | 22 |
| Suburban chauffeur | 18 |
| She wanted to ___ for suggesting the place! | 43 |
| Member of a middle-class demographic | 36 |
| Boomer parent | 13 |
| Site for sports paintings? | 26 |
| SOME ACTIVITY-MINDED PARENTS | 28 |
| D.C. United player, e.g. | 24 |
| Hot desert winds | 16 |
| Russian host of the 2014 Olympics | 33 |
| 2014 Olympics city | 18 |
| Where Meryl Davis and Charlie White won gold | 44 |
| Russian site of the 2014 Winter Olympics | 40 |
| Russian city, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics | 46 |
| Russian city to host the 2014 Olympics | 38 |
| Russia's largest resort city | 32 |
| "Olympic athletes are having sex?!?" | 46 |
| Gregarious | 10 |
| Not withdrawn | 13 |
| Friendly at parties | 19 |
| Friendly and pleasant | 21 |
| Gregariously | 12 |
| Like a party animal | 19 |
| Church party | 12 |
| Church gathering | 16 |
| Like bees and ants | 18 |
| Kind of science or get-together | 31 |
| Kind of climber | 15 |
| Given to glad-handing | 21 |
| Communal | 8 |
| Word with security or networking | 32 |
| Type of climber | 15 |
| Security predecessor | 20 |
| Mixer that may involve ice cream | 32 |
| Liking company | 14 |
| Like some media | 15 |
| Informal gathering | 18 |
| Gregar-ious | 11 |
| Companionable | 13 |
| Church mixer | 12 |
| Church get-together | 19 |
| Bee or tea | 10 |