| MATCHLOCK | After contest rugby player gets old gun (9) |
| BANDAGES | Group of players gets old dresses (8) |
| HALFTERM | Expression used after rugby player gets time off (4-4) |
| CENTRE | Rugby player gets little money in middle of career (6) |
| GRIDLOCK | Initially germ-free, rugby player gets congestion |
| SERVIETTE | Consumer protection offered by devious tester before and after contest (9) |
| BATTLEAXE | After contest fell for formidable woman |
| UNLOADING | Taking bullets from an old gun I dismantled (9) |
| FLINTLOCK | Old gun for dressing when among the birds (9) |
| HARQUEBUS | Old gun's redesigned square hub (9) |
| SERENADER | One supplying air when tennis player gets colour back (9) |
| ORIFLAMME | Standard old gun charged with bullets, sawn-off |
| FANHEATER | Hot air from this nut with an old gun (3,6) |
| OSTENSIVE | This compiler's inferior to old guns, it's apparent (9) |
| HARDLINES | Bad luck if player gets these? (4,5) |
| TYPECASTS | Model group of players gets the same roles again and again (9) |
| PEPPERBOX | A pot for "poivre"; a building, tower, turret etc resembling this; or, as one word, an old gun with revolving barrels, or a buttress projecting from the left-hand wall in Eton fives (6,3) |
| RELOADING | What old guns need, often |
| VIEWED | Watched United after contest |
| EVENT | Girl that came first's extremely nonchalant after contest |