| KUALALUMPUR | City playing United, twice aĆā¬Ćā plural aĆā¬Ćā a matey kickaround, at first (5,6) |
| KUALALUMPER | City playing United, twice - plural - a matey kickaround, at first (5,6) |
| BUNCRANA | In which town are Derry City playing their home games this season? (8) |
| ECLECTIC | Catholic in the City playing Celtic (8) |
| ENFANTPERDU | Soldier assigned to a difficult post - in the plural, a forlorn hope (6,5) |
| IRS | AcrossApril 15 org., or, as a plural, a hint to four long puzzle answers |
| BCS | Recently retired NCAA football ranking system, and, as a plural, a hint to the answers to starred cl |
| BUSTER | A frolic; a gale; a horse-breaker; a matey; a roisterer; or, something large or that shatters or destroys (6) |
| CONTENT | Usually in plural, a list of chapters given at the front of a book (7) |
| AUSTRALIANRULES | Trials with Arsenal and United twice playing football (10,5) |
| AHOY | How you might greet a matey on a ship |
| VACUUMED | Cleaned up in short holiday with United (twice) on the sea (8) |
| INTEGRATED | United, twice ignoring wingers in side, target nine to back (10) |
| NAUSEOUS | United twice involved in horrible season: it's sickening (8) |
| PEA | In a pod, mushed, used to make soup or blown out of a toy shooter, it is a small spherical green seed or pulse whose name in question was once thought to be a plural's singular (3) |
| IDES | In the ancient Roman calendar, a plural noun for a day near the middle of a month |
| RAIL | Horizontal piece in a sash window; family of birds in which the coot, moorhen and corncrake belong; or, in the plural, a racecourse barrier (4) |
| CHART | Horoscope; navigator's map; or, usually in plural, a weekly listing of the bestselling recorded music (5) |
| RECESS | An alcove, niche or secluded nook; or, often in plural, a secret place (6) |
| LYRIC | Style of poetry (and when plural, a song's words) |