| ANTIFREEZE | Open zone in one match? It keeps thing flowing (10) |
| OVERTONE | Suggestion open zones should lose cover (8) |
| OUTDUEL | Beat in a one-on-one match |
| RUSSIA | Team that finished the Euro 2020 group stage in 4th place in its group despite winning one match-the only last-place team to do so |
| BUNSENBURNER | Tends to meet one's match in study, as is in a class of its own, chemically speaking (6,6) |
| SEMI | Last but one match in a tournament, informally (4) |
| BIGAMY | Great little woman's participation in more than one match(6) |
| STRIKELUCKY | Hit on the one match in the box that will light? |
| COLTART | Played one match in the Ryder Cup, a 3&2 loss to Tiger Woods (7) |
| FIVESTAR | One match in four's outside with high-class facilities |
| FALLINLOVE | Meet one's match in the middle of Bostonian autumn with best wishes (4,2,4) |
| SANMARINO | Micronation whose national football team has, in 34 years, won exactly one (1) match |
| GREENWOOD | Identify the surname of the footballer who scored a hat-trick for Marseille in the Ligue 1 match against Le Havre in October 2025. (7) |
| MONOGAMIST | One match should last him a lifetime perhaps |
| PROFANITIES | Rude things to say for supporters about one match |
| GUESTIMATE | Rough judgment of visitor before one match |
| TIFF | Row after one match is over |
| LOTTIE | She puts her fortune on one match (6) |
| VESTA | Moves tables just to find one match? (5) |
| TIGER | Woods for one match across golf fairway, essentially (5) |
