| NOHITTER | Feat that, as of the start of 2018, has been achieved by every baseball team except the San Diego Padres |
| GETTHEMESSAGE | Understand that communication has been achieved (3,3,7) |
| SPIDERSOLITAIRE | Windows 98 card game that as of 2005 was the most played game on Windows PCs |
| RELEVANT | Appropriate and right to keep team, except that Konsa finally replaces Maguire at the back (8) |
| SWEEP | Win every baseball game against |
| NOONEON | What every baseball inning starts with |
| COCONUT | Fruit that can be the source of the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| SRY | Text abbr. that can be achieved by taking every other letter from the five-letter unabbreviated word |
| DOUBLEPLAY | Baseball feat that may result in the situation you can spell using the deleted letters in this puzzle |
| ALONGCAMEABIRD | Description of the start of some Road Runner cartoons? |
| GERMINATION | Process of the start of growth |
| ASH | What's just left of the start of this remains (3) |
| APRIL | Month of the start of England's asparagus season (5) |
| MIXEDGREENS | Salad choice, and a literal description of the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| BATH | Appropriate room for the sequence comprised of the starts of 18-, |
| ASWANDAM | The engineering feat that led to the creation of Lake Nasser? (5,3) |
| ABRAHAMS | First British athlete to win the Olympic 100 metres, a feat that was recounted in Chariots of Fire (8) |
| EXPLOIT | Make the most of what's been achieved |
| ROUNDER | In the game this might be achieved by milkman to the queen (7) |
| DEADMANSSHOES | A position or entitlement that will only be achieved by someone's passing (4,4,5) |
