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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

In any match he or she should play a fairly decisive role (7)

Leinster centre, hard worker, quick to get ready (7)

Today's big event in local publication (5,5)

Problems due to too many coaches etc dog almost half of XV (9)

Score on way in passionate encounter (5)

A yen that chap has to forego to become international (5)

Thugs upset if surrounded by rugby supporters (8)

Touch, possibly? Otherwise it's five points (5)

Start of rugby in old English clubs I found in study — it's compelling (8)

Finished with a player on one side being dominant (9)

Mature and train for Rugby, for instance? That's traditional (3,6)

Restrained by locks selected for team (6)

One player's performance in colossal upset (4)

Instruction to players to start fighting (6)

Back a time and a place for important matches (5)

He can ring the changes, as ten, in attack (6)

Eg captain leading little forwards in pack, say (5)

International held in appropriate stadium (4)

Official when giving a send-off for sevens player (10)

With this, centre makes a short distance in final minutes (5,4)

South African starts for Boks, obviously enjoying rugby (4)

Leader of Wallabies that is most off target (6)

Minimal censorship? That's one way to get play restarted (4-3)

One of two in fifteen for part of rugby match (4)

Provocative statements from a nasty person, one in pack (8)

Work on courses about small margin of victory in rugby (7)

Highly aggressive Kiwi activity, first of all? (4)

Intoxicated crowd, getting over line and leading in global competition (5,3)

Moving back, not forward (8)

See 17

Like kicker that's injured in rugby match, say (4)

Where you'll find beginning of game inscribed in stone (5)

Have score to settle between sides, so scowl (5)

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