| TENONE | "... have gone on a ___ run!" ("... have cut the lead by nine") |
| KNIFE | You could have cut the atmosphere with a ___, saying (5) |
| OGLED | Looked to have taken the lead by an own goal |
| AHEAD | In the lead -- by so much? (5) |
| PRESUMED | Supposed to have gone on from the page before (8) |
| PERPETUAL | Peter and Paul perhaps might have gone on and on (9) |
| DOWNWARD | The ___ Spiral 1994 album by Nine Inch Nails with the lead single March of the Pigs |
| SKITRACKS | Evidence of having gone on a run |
| SEABREEZE | Salty puffs filling for Sue having gone on a picnic |
| EGO | He goes? He's gone on a trip of conceit (3) |
| MICE | The farmer's wife is supposed to have cut off the tails of three blind ones with a carving knife |
| MISSIVE | A bad stroke I have cut short in a letter (7) |
| EBERT | Roger who claimed to have gone on two dates with Oprah Winfrey (the first one was, predictably, at t |
| BAP | Members, such as Bang Yong Guk and Zelo, of this boy group, formed by TS Entertainment, have gone on to successful solo careers |
| ETONIAN | Any former pupil of a Berkshire school, 20 of whom have gone on to be Prime Minister (7) |
| VEEPS | Many of them have gone on to become president |
| COMEOUT | Are revealed to have gone on strike (4,3) |
| ADENINE | A subunit of nucleic acids from the last of the lemonade by nine |
| PUBCRAWL | University's in lead by a stroke, switching bars a few times? |
| SNAG | Hit a ___ (run into a problem) |