| APOOR | "I am just ___ boy, though my story's seldom told": "The Boxer" |
| THEBOXER | Simon and Garfunkel song which starts: I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told (3,5) |
| BOXER | With "The," hit song that begins "I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told" |
| ACHES | "...For I never knew the art of making love, though my heart ___ with love for you. Afraid and shy I let my chance go by..." -Ray Charles/lenny Welch/elvis, "You Don't Know Me" each so good (1962) |
| OATES | "I am just going outside and may be some time," were the last words of Scott's Antarctic companion i |
| SCIMITAR | Blade -- I am just the thing to open old wound (8) |
| SIMULATION | Must I get to Los Angeles? No, I am just pretending |
| IMAYBESOMETIME | "I am just going outside, ___", reported last words of Captain Oates (1,3,2,4,4) |
| ACITY | "Just ___ boy, born and raised in South Detroit" (lyric from "Don't Stop Believin'") |
| IGOTAWOMAN | 1957 hit with the lyrics "She saves her lovin', early in the morning / Just for me, oh yeah" |
| AMUSE | Sue goes out in the morning just to entertain us (5) |
| DALI | "I am not strange. I am just not normal" artist |
| RINGSIDE | Call The Edge for a view on the The Boxer (8) |
| CLAY | What was the surname of Cassius, the boxer who, in the 1960s, became Muhammad Ali? (4) |
| ALIEN | The boxer gets the measure of the foreigner |
| TOUCHY | Psychoneurotic? Conspire not - I am just on edge (6) |
| AMIR | First name of the boxer who took part in I'm A Celeb in 2017 and had his own reality series, Meet The Khans: Big In Bolton (4) |
| STOIC | Term, from the Greek name of the Painted Portico, for a disciple of Zeno of Citium, such as the boxer Cleanthes, ex-slave Epictetus, favourite Perseus or champion runner Chrysippus, who laughed himsel |
| RINGCRAFT | What the campanologist and the boxer should possess (4-5) |
| EVANDER | First name of the boxer nicknamed "The Real Deal" |
