| ANGOLAN | National record sent up in article repeatedly |
| ETONMESS | Sweet record sent up by Hole? (4,4) |
| CLEAR | Explicit content found in article repeatedly |
| SPLICED | Wed Dec 1: records sent up |
| THRIVE | Succeed in getting six runs written up in article |
| THYME | Herb that's a surprise to see brought up in article (5) |
| DEMO | Record sent to a record producer |
| UNDERTHEWEATHER | Off-colour article repeatedly goes into unmentionables (5,3,7) |
| PLAZA | Square-shaped A to Z, a record sent back (5) |
| UKULELES | Items plucked from French article repeatedly probing transatlantic allies |
| EXPAT | Record sent back about unknown foreign resident |
| HUTCHINS | Canadian middle distance runner who was a national record holder in 1946, 1947, and 1951 |
| TRIPLEJUMP | Aishwarya Babu has broken a 11-year-old national record in this athletics discipline recently. (6,4) |
| DUTEE | National record-holding Indian women sprinter. (5) |
| MURALI | Jeswin Aldrin recently beat ... Sreeshankar's long jump national record. (6) |
| NANA | Fool returning articles repeatedly |
| ENNIS | Jessica ___A"-Hill, current British national record holder for the heptathlon (5) |
| SABLE | This Indian broke a 30-year 5,000m national record recently. (5) |
| MOLLY | British pole vaulter who holds the British national record for the women's pole vault, _ Caudery (5) |
| POPULAR | National records' favourite miniature handle? (4,7,4,4) |
