Referring Clues

• Crackerjacks
• Whizzes
• Mavens
• Major-leaguers
• Some Olympians, nowadays
• N.F.L., e.g., with "the"
• Masters
• Debate list
• Advantages
• Old hands
• They're all for it
• Specialists
• All in favor
• Some arguments
• Experts
• Paid players
• Canucks and Canadiens
• They get paid for playing games
• Positive aspects
• Tour golfers, e.g.
• Lions and tigers and bears
• "Aye" voters
• PGA players
• Laudable aspects
• Con's cons
• Yea-sayers
• Favorable aspects
• Supporter's citations
• Cowboys and Indians, e.g.
• Aces
• They're paid to play
• Thumbs-up voters
• Advocates
• Major leaguers
• ___ and cons
• Those in favor
• NFL players
• Paid athletes
• All those in favor
• Play-for-pay athletes
• Money players
• Golf instructors
• Those on one side
• One side
• Golf teachers
• Ones in favor
• Cons' opposers
• Players who are paid
• Advantageous aspects
• Country club instructors
• Members of the PGA
• Arguments for
• Cons partners?
• Career golfers
• Counterpart to 28-Across
• Tiger and Ernie, for short
• Those in favor of
• Anti-antis?
• What some former Olympians become
• Those with know-how
• Opposite of 45-Down
• In-favor-of arguments
• Cons' counterpart
• They're on one side of an issue
• Big leaguers
• Players that are paid
• Country club employees
• One side of an argument
• Certain arguments
• ___ and cons
• Favorable factors
• NHL-ers
• Mike Weir and Lorie Kane
• Supporting arguments
• Thunder and Lightning
• One side of an issue
• Major leaguers, e.g.
• Nfl players
• Debate group
• Some debaters
• One side of the argument
• Golf-course staffers
• Those who aren't 2-Down
• Veterans
• Big-leaguers
• Upside list
• Upsides
• Kings and Senators
• They were banned from Wimbledon until 1968
• Arguments in favor
• Some debate arguments
• Cons' opponents
• Cons' adversaries
• Most Masters participants
• Bosox and D'backs, e.g.
• Cons' opposites
• Good points
• Items on the plus side
• Reasons for doing something
• Bears and Cubs
• Debate sides
• Wizards
• Reasons for
• Virtuosi
• Partners of cons
• Some athletes
• They're at the top of their game
• They usually don't make the olympics
• Tennis experts
• They are paid to play the field
• NFL players, e.g.
• J.B. Holmes and Bubba Watson, e.g.
• Virtuosos
• NFLers, e.g.
• Athletes who are paid
• Past masters
• Cons partners
• Ones in a league of their own
• Seattle Seahawks, e.g.
• Bears, Cubs and Bruins
• Country club teachers
• M. Weir and S. Ames
• People to depend on
• They do it for money
• Dab hands
• Country club figures
• They're in favor
• Counterparts of amateurs
• Golf course teachers
• They play for money
• Desirable traits
• All U.S. Open golf champions since 1934
• Salaried athletes
• One side to consider
• Cons' cons
• Pluses
• Experts writing, by the sound of it
• Sportsmen who are paid for writing? Not quite
• 2, 24 across and 4, oddly, as opposed to 8
• Arguments for doing something
• Persons with knowledge and skill
• Points in favor
• Big leagues
• Players in the majors
• The Pirates and the Buccaneers, e.g.
• Highly competent sorts
• What some cons are
• Half of some two-column lists
• Full-time golfers
• Anti-antis?
• Cons' foes
• They know the ropes
• Practically all Masters Tournament golfers
• They're all in favour
• NFL and MLB, with "the"
• Go-to people
• All NFLers
• Not amateurs
• Reasons to do something
• Career athletes
• Dependable experts
• Driving range instructors
• NHL or NFL players
• They play for pay
• What some amateurs become
• Some Olympic athletes, since the 1980s
• All MLB players
• ... and advantages found in them
• Mets and Jets
• Full-time athletes
• Moneymaking rushers, e.g.
• Lions, Tigers and Bears
• Seasoned vets
• Positives, in decision-making
• Counterparts of cons
• "Leave it to the ___"
• Some Angels in California
• They know what they're doing
• Ones paid to play
• Athletes first allowed in the Olympics in 1988
• They're in the + column
• USWNT players, e.g.
• Favorable points
• (The) big leagues
• They get paid to play
• Amateurs no more
• ___ and cons list
• Arguments in the column
• Many athletes you watch on TV
• Athletes making at least a buck
• U-turn from cons
• Arguments in the assets column
• "What are the ___ and cons?"
• Amateurs' counterparts
• WNBA athletes
• Like WNBA players
• Non-amateurs
• Cons' counterparts
• Amateurs' opposites
• Experts, familiarly
• One side of a list