| EQUALISER | Goal that levels the scores (9) |
| POINTS | Levels the scores (6) |
| FORNOW | In the short term, obtain a number that levels the score, at least temporarily (4,4,3,3) |
| GETSEVEN | In the short term, obtain a number that levels the score, at least temporarily (4,4,3,3) |
| EVENS | It takes seven of a sort and that levels the score |
| SCHILLACI | Who scored the goal that knocked Ireland out of the 1990 World Cup? (9) |
| HARVESTER | machine to level the field |
| LAWNMOWER | It helps level the playing field? |
| TIE | In the event I expect to level the scores (3) |
| EQUALISE | Level the scores |
| OWNGOAL | Own goal(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending (3,4) |
| OWNGOALS | Goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending (3,5) |
| DECIDER | The game or goal that determines the winner |
| HANDICAP | Worker with one explosive thing that levels field? (8) |
| PUSKAS | Ferenc, Hungarian footballer after whom FIFA named an annual award for the scorer of the most beautiful goal that year (6) |
| ORR | Player who scored the goal that won the Stanley Cup on May 10, 1970 |
| ENDZONE | In American football, the area behind the goals that the ball must cross for a touchdown to be awarded (3,4) |
| HOPELESSCAUSE | Goal that never gets off the ground |
| TMI | "I didn't need that level of detail" initialism |
| TNT | It levels the playing field |
