| SAFECO | Mariners' park, familiarly and formerly |
| THEVET | Phillies park, familiarly |
| THEJUICEBOX | Houston's Minute Maid Park, familiarly |
| ELLEN | Popular afternoon talk show, familiarly, and a homophonic hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| DANDD | Seminal role-playing game familiarly, and the theme of this puzzle |
| THEAS | MLB team, familiarly (and what's missing from the sequence found in the answers to starred clues?) |
| DND | Role-playing game with a 20-sided die, familiarly, and a feature of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| MANCITY | Premier League powerhouse, familiarly, and an alternate title for this puzzle |
| BAIZE | Green fabric used to cover card tables and formerly doors in large country houses to distinguish areas for servants and muffle scullery/kitchen sounds (5) |
| CANDLES | Traditionally made by chandlers and offered as votives, items for illuminating Advent wreaths, lanterns, hurricane lamps and formerly Christmas trees (7) |
| OATS | Eaten by ancient Roman warhorses, fairytale bears, athletes and formerly prison inmates, grains used for porridge, cranachan and bircher muesli (4) |
| SUN | - in splendour; depiction of the solar system's central star with rays and a human face, used in heraldry and formerly on some firemarks (3) |
| INLAYS | Patterns in marquetry, boulle and pietra dura made from pieces of marble, wood, mother-of-pearl, pewter etc and formerly ivory (6) |
| BLAKE | Sienna ___, character in Hollyoaks and formerly in Home and Away! (5) |
| PARRIS | Matthew, political journalist and broadcaster born in 1949 and formerly a Conservative MP (6) |
| INEXPERT | Popular, and formerly saucy, ham |
| PRESUMPTUOUS | Willful and formerly magnificent, it appears (12) |
| CLAUDIORANIERI | Manager of Sampdoria, and formerly Leicester City |
| NAIROBI | Capital city of Kenya, and formerly (1905-20) |
| SECEDE | Surrender at two points and formerly withdraw (6) |
