| LOSES | Comes in second in a duel |
| PLACES | Comes in second in a horse race |
| PLACED | Came in second, in a horse race |
| LOST | Came in second in a two-horse race |
| BASENJI | Poor Jane's in second. In first is a dog (7) |
| ABDICATION | Bad action foolishly bringing in second in line? (10) |
| LOSE | Come in second, in tennis |
| INCONSTANT | Fickle politician comes in second (10) |
| ABITTHICK | Henry, out of practice, comes in second: unfair! |
| LOSER | One who comes in second |
| RUNNERUP | Person who comes in second: Hyph. |
| ELS | Golfer who came in second in the 2000 Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open |
| DAY | Period of time, in seconds in Edinburgh, Paris, Lyon? (3) |
| LUMEN | SI unit of luminous flux, equal to that emitted per second in a unit solid angle (steradian) by a point source with a uniform intensity of one candela (5) |
| METHOD | Mathematical formulation used in cricket to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a match interrupted by weather, renamed to its current title in 2014 |
| DUCKWORTHLEWIS | Mathematical formulation used in cricket to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a match interrupted by weather, renamed to its current title in 2014 |
| BETA | Greek letter denoting a trial version of a product, or the second in a series (4) |
| MACHO | For a second in a church, aggressively male (5) |
| AMBO | Second in a second desk (4) |
| PRINCIPAL | From the Latin for "first, chief", a headmaster/mistress; a leading actor, dancer or instrumentalist; or, one of the combatants in a duel (9) |
