| OPENINGNIGHT | First time Julius Caesar appeared on world's stage, for instance - a window of opportunity and a dark period? (7,5) |
| IOWA | State that's also a Dar Williams song |
| PAPAWESTRAY | Orkney island reached on world's shortest scheduled flight (4,7) |
| JOBOPENING | Employment opportunity, and a hint to the first word of the answers to starred clues |
| GOLDMINE | Big money-making opportunity and a hint to the starred clues' answers |
| SASH | One of a pair of sliding frames containing a pane of glass for a window of the same name (4) |
| SMASHANDGRAB | It's a window of opportunity for quick thieves to disrupt Grandma's bash (5-3-4) |
| EMBRASURE | A window of opportunity for the Gunners? (9) |
| SMYTH | Composer of The March of the Women suffrage anthem jailed for throwing a rock through a window of the Houses of Parliament (5) |
| ONSALE | Words in a window of opportunity |
| ADVENTCALENDAR | What, just before Christmas, offers many a window of opportunity? (6,8) |
| YOUREMISSINGOUT | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| TRANSOM | ... a crime with a small window of opportunity? |
| ATLANTICCITY | Off Galway and Limerick, for instance, a tourist destination for the American risk takers (8,4) |
| FOREIGNMINISTER | A politician on the world stage, I'm interfering so mischievously (7,8) |
| MISSINGOUT | Losing an opportunity, and an explanation for 15 of the Down answers |
| CHRONICLES | "Gordita ___" ("Funny, moving story about love, opportunity, and the American Dream" that's another of the 11) |
| CLOSINGFAST | "And now Window of Opportunity is ___..." |
| JENNIFERLOPEZ | On the Floor singer who's an executive producer and judge on World of Dance: 2 wds. |
| VERB | To be, for instance, a bit of a lover boy (4) |
