| YOKING | Making a team, as from oxen |
| XENON | Gas from oxen only offends downwind. (5) |
| MASCOT | A talisman or person often adopted by a team as a symbol of good luck (6) |
| ONTHESIDE | Part of a team as well as doing a paid job (2, 3, 4) |
| LAYASIDE | Amateur joins A-team as reserve |
| BIFFIN | Red cooking apple whose name, from "ox for slaughter", alludes to its colour of raw beef; or, such a pome, baked and flattened in the form of a cake as a traditional Norfolk snack (6) |
| LIELOW | Invention, something coming from ox hide |
| NEATSFOOT | Type of oil, jelly from ox (5-4) |
| COMENEXT | Follow on from ox made out of cement (4,4) |
| SEASIDE | A marine team, as opposed to the country one? (7) |
| AMASSES | Collects from team as session ends. (7) |
| HIRES | Brings onto the team, as a job candidate |
| ASTROS | Team as old as the Mets |
| DEADWEIGHT | Insensitive with rowing team as a heavy encumbrance |
| LAMB | Mascot of Los Angeles's transplant football team, as a baby |
| AMATEURS | RU team, as originally constituted (8) |
| AMASS | Assemble team as security guards |
| DANCER | One in the same team as, say, Rudolf Nureyev? |
| IDEAS | Thoughts of top team as getting relegated |
| ACES | Las Vegas WNBA team as of the 2018 season |
