| PENALTYSPOT | Mark twelve yards from the centre of a football goal line (7,4) |
| PENALTY | In association football a ... kick is a direct free kick taken 12 yards from the goal (7) |
| PENALTYKICK | It's taken from twelve yards out |
| HALFTIME | Middle of a football game |
| HOGSCORE | Curling rink line seven yards from the tee |
| SHORTCORNER | A hockey penalty shot, taken from a spot on the goal line |
| CROSSBAR | Top tube of a bicycle frame; or, section of a football goal (8) |
| SCOREPOINTS | Make a slam dunk or cross the goal line, e.g. |
| ASTRONOMICALUNIT | Distance equal to the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun (12,4) |
| POSTS | Stops moving the uprights of the football goal (5) |
| SYNCOPE | Omission of a letter or syllable from the middle of a word, as in the common pronunciations of Wednesday, library etc. (7) |
| RADIUS | Straight line extending from the centre of a circle to the circumference |
| KICKOFF | Situation where a footballer plays the ball from the centre of the pitch (4-3) |
| TWENTYTWO | Abbreviated term for the section of a rugby pitch in front of the goal-line (6,3) |
| TRY | Score worth five points in rugby union resulting from the grounding of the ball behind the opponents' goal line (3) |
| EYETOEYE | How to see things from the same point of view when going from the middle of one storm to the next (3,2,3) |
| WEASELS | Yards or less from the opponent's goal line, in football |
| REDZONE | Section of a football field abutting the goal line |
| REDZONES | Football field areas between the 20-yard line and the goal line |
| RADII | Lines from the centre of a circle to the edge (5) |
