| RATEPAYER | Row with footballer perhaps left out - he must settle tax bills |
| OWES | Must settle up with |
| GOFER | Club operator perhaps left out errand boy (5) |
| OVERS | Orpheus and Eurydice, perhaps, left out divisions of play (5) |
| CUB | Driver perhaps left out young journalist (3) |
| CLOTH | Towel perhaps left out, oddly placed between taps (5) |
| PLAYGOER | Footballer perhaps must cover shot for lover of drama (4-4) |
| BEST | Conferred with footballer needing to be paid off? (8) |
| PITCHBLACK | Unlit ground, with footballer initially locked inside |
| MINESWEEPER | This person's with footballer, one eliminating danger in the main |
| UNCAP | Remove cover from an international footballer perhaps |
| SWINGER | Lively person's son, a footballer, perhaps |
| CENTREFORWARD | Footballer, perhaps, about to cut money for protege |
| ABACK | A footballer, perhaps, dismayed to be taken thus? |
| HEADER | Dive made by a footballer perhaps (6) |
| PLAYER | Footballer, perhaps, one settling outside Liverpool at last |
| TRANSFER | Side-to-side movement by a footballer perhaps (8) |
| ENGLAND | Bob Hope said he left where for America at age four when he found out he could never be king? (7) |
| SOUTHEAST | In rehearsals he shouts out - he astonishes everyone with his direction (5-4) |
| EEK | Cry upon seeing a property tax bill, maybe |
