| PAIROFSHORTS | Sounds like couple of things electrician would fix in football gear (4,2,6) |
| PEAR | A fruit; sounds like couple |
| KNEEPAD | Leg protector in football gear (2 words) |
| YOLKS | Sounds like couples with yellow bits (5) |
| OUTSTRIP | Excel as runner, not in football gear (8) |
| BOWANDSCRAPE | Couple of things fiddler does to curry favour (3,3,6) |
| THIRDWORLD | Like couple in final clue touring large part of the globe (5,5) |
| RIGTHERESULT | Successfully put the fix in |
| ODDLOT | One or two shares ___ couple of things things that go with job? (3,3) |
| PINHOLE | Couple of things for the swingers to aim for in very small space (7) |
| STRIPCLUB | Football gear for team in the business of losing everything (5,4) |
| FORTE | Like couple in song, endlessly? Strong point (5) |
| EMS | A couple of things in common |
| CALLBACK | Come here, for example, with a couple of things the gambler will do? (4,4) |
| ANGELS | A couple of things described as Polar bears going back on spirits (6) |
| SEARSTOWER | Old skyscraper where packer keeps couple of things boxed, sometimes? |
| FLASHPOINT | A couple of things to do with a camera at critical moment (10) |
| LOVEYDOVEY | ... like couple in rhyme, billing and cooing? |
| SHORTS | A sample of the football gear popular with all sides today (6) |
| RIGADOON | Lively jig-like couples dance similar to the bourree, of 17th-century Provencal origin (8) |
