| DULY | Almost boring year, as expected (4) |
| PANT | The 'Emerging Player of the Year' as per the 2018 ICC Awards. (4) |
| RYNE | He was voted into the Hall of Fame the same year as Wade |
| ELAL | Airline founded in the same year as the nation of Israel |
| THEY | American Dialect Society's 2015 word of the year, as a singular |
| SLAM | In 1988 Steffi Graf became the only person in the century to win a true Golden ..., ie the Australian, French, US and Wimbledon titles in the same calendar year as Olympic gold |
| OSLO | Capital known for 300 years as Christiania |
| TET | The New Year as celebrated in Vietnam during the first seven days of the first lunar month of the year (3) |
| MERIMEE | Prosper in cheerful time of year, as they say (7) |
| ASSAD | Mideast president elected the same year as the younger Bush |
| ENJOINED | Had benefit of using home for year, as ordered |
| PAY | Minimal amount a year as fee |
| ANOMALY | First of results excluded from a standard year, as this? |
| RENEW | Order for another year, as a magazine |
| VIVALDI | Composer of the year as represented in pieces (7) |
| EMISSARY | Single female in troubled year as agent |
| CAPPEDACAREER | Had one's best year, as veteran athletes |
| EPA | Org. created the same year as the first Earth Day |
| SYRIAN | Welsh woman accepts year as resident in Damascus, say (6) |
| BFF | OED addition the same year as OMG |
