| NOHOPER | No call to attract attention according to one without any chance of success (2-5) |
| HEAVEHO | He will welcome call to attract attention to exertion at sea (5,2) |
| NOWIN | Popular at present yet without any chance of success (2-3) |
| NOHOPE | Refusal for comedian Bob, say, without any chance of success? (2,4) |
| UPATREE | Lacking any chance of progressing |
| PERIGEE | Satellite's closest point to the earth according to one character (7) |
| NONSTARTER | Plan without any chance of success |
| PUTTHEMOCKERSON | Chanted by audience impatient with compere of satire show, to ruin any chance of success? (3,3,7,2) |
| THEGAMEISUP | Huge pastime abandoned when there's no longer any chance of success (3,4,2,2) |
| ISOLATED | By yourself without any chance of being charged (8) |
| NODICE | Indicate assent to nicer interns though there isn't any chance of success |
| EVERTON | By any chance getting century for club? (7) |
| WHETHER | If by any chance |
| YOHO | Characters in Tokyo hotels call to attract attention (2-2) |
| BUTWILLITWORK | "Any chance of success, though?" |
| COHAB | Housemate gives call to attract attention, having returned in taxi (5) |
| NOWISE | Without any chance at all (and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| HOAR | Call to attract attention before annual return of frost (4) |
| YOOHOO | Call to attract attention of reader; loudly hoot endlessly |
| HOLYGRAIL | According to one set of medieval legends, what was brought by angels, guarded on the top of a mountain by a group of pure knights and would vanish if approached by anyone impure? (4,5) |
