| CLAIMABLE | Message about league goal being within reach? (9) |
| HANDY | It's convenient, being within reach, and you appreciate it (5) |
| CLOSEBY | Sultry because of being within reach (5,2) |
| OBJECT | Protest against the goal being the thing (6) |
| OLIGARCHS | They have become rich, goals being corrupted? (9) |
| SHANELONG | Southampton striker who, in 2019, scored the fastest ever Premier League goal |
| RISK | Wargame played using a modified map of the globe, with the players' goal being world domination. (4) |
| KENNYDAVENPORT | Bolton Wanderers and England inside right credited with scoring the first ever Football League goal, |
| NEARTHING | Close shave from an object within reach? (4,5) |
| VEGETABLE | Rocket, perhaps, that has wartime success within reach? |
| CONCERNED | Worried about research centre being within church's diameter (9) |
| BLINDSIDE | Difficulty about league team's weak point (5,4) |
| FIREALARM | Warning to evacuate - note being within range of gun? |
| VANPERSIE | Robin ---, 18A scorer of 144 league goals for Arsenal and Manchester United |
| DIXIEDEAN | Centre forward who scored a record 60 league goals for Everton in the 1927-28 season (5,4) |
| TENTACLED | King escaping, confronted by small number with insidious reach? |
| TOPDRAWER | Excellent place to store stuff out of tot's reach? |
| RUNNERSUP | Those second beans hard to reach? (7-2) |
| COMMIE | Busy road within reach? One's on the far left (6) |
| SHANDY | Drink that's small within reach? (6) |
