| ATTENTIVE | A race event somehow gets one listening (9) |
| PURIFY | Fry-up somehow gets one clean |
| FLOOR | Gymnastics event somehow making roofs fall in (5,6) |
| FINALS | Gymnastics event somehow making roofs fall in (5,6) |
| CONFIDANT | In fact, nod excitedly as one listening to confession? (9) |
| FOREARMED | Made to keep one listening and prepared for battle? (9) |
| LITTERBUG | Farrow of piglets perhaps, one listening to the pig on the street? (9) |
| FUMIGATED | A fetid mug somehow gets disinfected (9) |
| ADLIBBING | Balding somehow gets barber's first one improvising (2-7) |
| GREATNESS | Somehow gets near the South with such fame (9) |
| REALIGNED | Leaden rig somehow gets arranged again (9) |
| STINGIEST | Somehow gets in - it's as tight as can be |
| CRIMEWAVE | Increased lawlessness by mice somehow gets registered by greeting (5,4) |
| TITFORTAT | Fit to bust, tart somehow gets revenge (3,3,3) |
| GESTURING | Somehow gets you to call by signalling |
| SHEEPSHEARER | Woman, one listening to records, who works at a clip |
| INCASE | Old race, event only starting as a precaution |
| HERA | Regularly-deceived wife, one listening as one speaks |
| EARMUFF | Political group holds branch party in winter - it's a welcome comfort to any one listening (7) |
| OMNIUM | From the Latin meaning "all", a multi-discipline race event in track cycling, won by Laura Kenny nee Trott at both the 2012 and the 2016 Olympic Games (6) |
