| WRESTED | Forcibly taken away and temporarily dropped from the team, we hear (7) |
| SIGHED | The team, we hear, expressed discontent |
| KFC | Chain that temporarily dropped the "Finger Lickin' Good!" slogan during the pandemic |
| ABDUCTEE | One forcibly taken, reportedly plunged into a meeting (8) |
| OMITTED | Dropped (from the team) (7) |
| TREASON | The reason he was taken away and executed (7) |
| PUTUPON | Ill-used set given pound, daughter taken away and shaken (3-4) |
| MISLAID | Mail is moved by director and temporarily lost (7) |
| AMBROSE | Golf format where the next stroke is hit from the team's best-positioned ball (7) |
| TENABLE | Losing one player from the team can be defensible (7) |
| DROPPED | Having put catches down, omitted from the team (7) |
| OUTSIDE | Apart from the team that's finished batting (7) |
| AITCHES | They are sometimes dropped from the start of words (7) |
| PATCHUP | Fix hastily and temporarily |
| MAEWEST | Teams we organised are best, some say (3,4) |
| AXED | Dropped (from the team) (4) |
| SIDES | Moreover, be dropped from the teams (5) |
| BESIDE | Be adjacent to the second team we hear (6) |
| TWELFTHNIGHT | Play first reserve in chivalrous football team, we hear? (7,5) |
| BESIDES | They are not the best teams, we hear, anyway (7) |
