| OLYMPICS | Short name of a sports event symbolised by five linked rings (8) |
| PODIUM | Platform for an orchestra's conductor or the top three victors of a sports event; or, an ancient amphitheatre's circling wall (6) |
| CHAIN | Necklace of linked rings (5) |
| AUDI | Car with four linked rings |
| CHAMONIX | Common or short name of a ski resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, site of the first Winter Olympics (8 |
| SPECTATE | Be a viewer, at a sports event perhaps (8) |
| PROMOTER | A person or company that finances or organises a sports event, concert etc. (8) |
| COMPLETE | For a trainee to get into a sports event is perfect (8) |
| GYMKHANA | Room for exercise to divert Hank around a sports event for horses (8) |
| WILDCARD | A person allowed to compete in a sports event without the usual qualifications (4,4) |
| WOODLAND | Protected by a conservation charity symbolised by two oak leaves, a green and shady type of habitat where trees are the dominant plants (8) |
| POSITIVE | A desirable quality; a photo printed from a negative; or, a number greater than zero, symbolised by the + sign (8) |
| DAVISCUP | A sports event held in Glasgow in September. (5-3) |
| DEMOCRAT | A member of the U.S. political party symbolised by a donkey (8) |
| NAP | Short name of a card game said to commemorate a French emperor; a tipster's racing certainty; an Australian bedroll; the surface of cloth, raised and cut smooth; or, a doze or a snooze (3) |
| OCCLUDED | On a weather map, the kind of front symbolised by a combination of spikes and semi-circles |
| FAIRYRING | Short name of a mushroom whose Latin epithet, Marasmius oreades, refers to mountain nymphs; or, a circle formed by a number of said champignons, but popularly attributed to imagined folkish dancing pi |
| FIRSTAID | Symbolised by a white cross on a green background, medical assistance taught by the British Red Cross or St John Ambulance (5,3) |
| NORTHERN | ____ soul, music and dance movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s symbolised by a clinched fist (8) |
| INFINITY | Concept symbolised by the figure of eight-shaped lemniscate (8) |
