| TEMPTINGFATE | Agency worker, with hint about richness, taking a chance |
| MERCHANTSHIP | Writer, right chap with hints about trading vessel (8,4) |
| TEMPT | Lure agency worker with contract ending (5) |
| TEMPURA | Agency worker with posh artist gets Japanese dish (7) |
| CONCLUDE | Mislead with hint about dead end (8) |
| ECLOGUE | Pastoral verse, English, with hint about woodland feature |
| OCCLUDE | Block rise of company with hint about Director |
| EXCLUDED | Former partner with hint about day close to ground is denied access (8) |
| MANICURE | Chap, one with hint about right treatment for hands (8) |
| RECLUSE | Hermit concerned with hint about society (7) |
| ALEATORY | Taking a chance on having beer with a politician (8) |
| OR | Truth ___ dare is a slumber party game that challenges a player to choose between telling the truth and taking a chance |
| LEAP | A jump, such as that figuratively made in the dark when taking a chance; or, a group of leopards (4) |
| GAMBLING | Turns up, magazine with connection to ostentatious jewellery is taking a chance (8) |
| PER | By taking a chance as a matter of luck |
| DARLING | The favourite, taking a chance, gets a left in (7) |
| BEINGALIVE | "Company" song about taking a chance on love |
| ANTIPODES | Southern Climes article with hints about poetry |
| ONEARMEDBANDIT | Single desperado revealed that they had a gun, taking a chance on getting some money from this |
| IGO | "Here ___ again..." ("Taking a Chance on Love" lyric) |
