| GOALLINE | Marking in front of the net in football (4,4) |
| GOALAREA | Zone in front of the net in football (4,4) |
| FRENETIC | Wildly excited soldier pushes one past net in football club (8) |
| DEADHEAT | Headed odd ball to area at the back of the net in tie (4,4) |
| DROPSHOT | Softly-played return that just clears the net in tennis (4,4) |
| MANTOMAN | Type of defensive marking in football that is alternative to zonal (3,2,3) |
| INTERWEB | Net wire, tangled, black ___ it's one view of the net (8) |
| STEVENASH | Two-time NBA MVP who became head coach of the Nets in 2020: 2 wds. |
| BASELINE | Court marking in basketball or tennis |
| THEREAND | Article on champion gathered in with a net in The Hobbit? |
| RING | A band of gold or silver, sometimes set with gems; an "elf circle" of champignon mushrooms on a woodland floor; one of the concentric markings in the trunk of a tree; or, a disc of matter orbiting Sat |
| ENTITLE | I let it be put in the net in order to give it the right (7) |
| SYNCHROMESH | Take the plunge, say, and run out the net in this gear (11) |
| AGOAL | Score ___ (put one in the net, in soccer) |
| THEN | Alien left the net in the Parthenon at that time (4) |
| NEATNESS | Precision called for, casting a net in the loch |
| PRESENTS | Shows use of net in newspapers (8) |
| TENEMENT | Meet over new net in a block of flats (8) |
| ENTANGLE | Twist together net in knots on top of fish (8) |
| PORTENTS | Presages moving of net in harbours (8) |
