| ALIVEANDKICKING | Healthy and active as a soccer team with a chance at the finals (5,3,7) |
| ARSENAL | Soccer team with a cannon in its logo |
| AFIDDLE | Really healthy and active in the orchestra's violin section? (3,2,1,6) |
| FITAS | Really healthy and active in the orchestra's violin section? (3,2,1,6) |
| VIGOROUS | Healthy and active (8) |
| FAITESVOSJEUX | Doddery ex-judge with SUV, one safe to take a chance at the wheel! |
| SWINDON | As a soccer team, the "Dons" may be out for success (7) |
| THENCE | From there, given half a chance at the beginning (6) |
| FAILSTOQUALIFY | Misses a chance at the gold |
| ELEVEN | Made one such as a soccer team? (6) |
| LEEDS | Soccer team with top players, so it's said |
| INTERMIAMI | Major League Soccer team with pink home jerseys |
| WEATHERFORECAST | You and I rush after hero and the actors in "Cloudy with a chance of rain", perhaps (7,8) |
| PUNTRETURN | What the other team may have a chance at, if you don't "go for it" (2 wds.) |
| HASSAN | Egyptian striker, active as a player from 1983 to 2008, who currently manages Al Ittihad Alexandria. (6) |
| BETS | Be expected to score, initially, so takes a chance at a track (4) |
| GOALKEEPER | Go, Al, keep the Queen as a soccer player (10) |
| LIT | Active, as a match |
| ERUPTS | Becomes active, as a volcano |
| AFOOT | Active, as a game |
