| LITIGATE | Contest in law |
| REPECHAGE | Heat in an elimination contest in which previous runners-up compete for a place in the final, as in rowing, fencing etc. (9) |
| MATCH | Vesta stored in a box sometimes collected in phillumeny; or, a contest in boxing, cricket or other sport (5) |
| TRIATHLON | Sporting competition involving swimming, running and cycling, several are held each year in Mallorca including those in Palma, Cala d'Or, Colonia de San Jordi and the Ironman contest in Alcudia (9) |
| CLIFFHANGER | A contest in which the result is in doubt till the very end (11) |
| DECATHLON | An athletic contest in which each competitor takes part in ten different events |
| STING | Inflict a wound in contest in Germany (5) |
| RIVIERA | One contest in road race always starts in resort area (7) |
| SERVIETTE | Contest in street that's pitiful, in which scraps of food collected (9) |
| EUROVISION | Dressed in demon costumes, Finnish band Lordi won this music contest in 2006 with the hilarious "Hard Rock Hallelujah" |
| REDWOOD | John, Conservative politician who challenged John Major in a party leadership contest in 1995 (7) |
| GAME | Sporting contest in morning held in borders of Greece (4) |
| DEVIL | Player in a Georgia fiddle contest, in a song |
| ONTOO | "Held ___ Long" (Rhode Island's entry in "American Song Contest" in 2022) |
| TUGOFWAR | A contest in which two people or teams pull opposite ends of a rope in an attempt to drag the opposition over a central line (3-2-3) |
| STINCHAR | Ayrshire salmon/trout river - featured in contest in Charmouth (8) |
| GIEDROYC | Mel, comedian who impersonated a Polish milkmaid in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 (8) |
| SCRATCHRACE | In track cycling, a contest in which all participants start on equal terms (7,4) |
| KEMP | An old dialect word for a contest in reaping or other work; a champion; or, from "whisker, moustache", a coarse dye-resistant fibre or strand in wool (4) |
| TRALEE | Largest town in County Kerry, famed for a contest in which Ireland's 32 counties each enter a competitor (6) |
