| PUNCHBOWL | Stadium for a boxing match? |
| MULL | Device such as a hand-worked quern or a water- or wind-powered buhr/grindstone; a snuffbox; or, an old slang word for a boxing match (4) |
| MILL | Device such as a hand-worked quern or a water- or wind-powered buhr/grindstone; a snuffbox; or, an old slang word for a boxing match |
| ABOUTTIME | A diary note for a boxing match? It should have happened sooner (5,4) |
| SKIPROPE | Train for a boxing match, perhaps |
| TKO | One possible ending for a boxing match: Abbr. |
| SPARRED | Practiced for a boxing match |
| ABOUT | All around for a boxing match |
| SPAR | Train for a boxing match |
| RING | Setting for a boxing match |
| SPARS | Practices for a boxing match |
| ARENA | Building for a boxing match |
| RINGSIDE | Front row for a boxing match (8) |
| SLUGFEST | Term for a boxing match or struggle characterised by heavy blows (8) |
| BOUT | Word from "bend, circuit, round, turn", for a boxing match, coughing fit, drinking spree, fencing encounter, wrestle or other "turn" of activity (4) |
| HIPPODROME | Now a term for variety theatre, it was originally a Greek stadium for chariot races, etc (10) |
| SPORTSARENA | Place for a boxing ring |
| BELT | Hit hard - for a boxing prize? (4) |
| CIRCUS | Flock of puffins; a travelling company of entertainers including funambulists, trapezists and clowns; or, a stadium for chariot races (6) |
| NATIONAL | Land for gangster with stadium for the boxers (8) |
