| BEHEADED | Polled live, as many a footballer will have done? |
| DOG | Many a footballer's error will haunt him, following (3) |
| HAIFA | Hearts footballers will swallow a single port (5) |
| SOFAS | Call for help, accepting footballers will get places to relax (5) |
| LOOFAH | Maybe ladies and footballers will need hard scourer (6) |
| IMMUNISED | Wriggling inside mum, as many a baby will be (9) |
| RATSNEST | Metaphor for a messy place, such as many a teenager's bedroom |
| FUTUREPERFECT | Tense (eg "will have done") (6,7) |
| JOINEDUP | Mature draftee will have done so (6-2) |
| DRILLED | What dentist will have done - trained? (7) |
| DOMED | See sights of the Levant, such as many a temple (5) |
| SOUP | Awkwardly placed, as many a noodle may be (2,3,4) |
| COOKIECUTTER | Undistinguished, as many a subdivision house |
| INTHE | Awkwardly placed, as many a noodle may be (2,3,4) |
| LOAF | Be idle as many a clumsy fellow (4) |
| TRAGIC | Disastrous as many a dramatic production (6) |
| KNOWSTHEROPES | Understands the procedure, as many a boxer does (5,3,5) |
| LIMP | Flabby as many a politician (4) |
| BEACON | Live as a prisoner as a warning |
| IDYLL | Polled neat will furnish pastoral scene |
