| CHERRYPICKER | One selecting the best crane |
| CHERRYPICKERS | People who go for the best cranes (6,7) |
| CHERRYPICKING | Selecting the best red, before 23 (6-7) |
| CEDING | Giving up selecting the best players, we hear |
| CHOICE | Word for the act/power of electing, hand-picking, opting or selecting; the thing decided on; or, the best or preferable part, aka the plum (6) |
| ASONG | The competition selecting the British entry for the Eurovision contest was called ... For Europe (1, |
| CASTINGDIRECTOR | One of those selecting the players is fishing for a job on the board (7,8) |
| CULLER | One selecting paint we hear (6) |
| NITPICKER | One selecting an idiot, perhaps, in critic (9) |
| ELECTOR | One selecting e-reader? (7) |
| HIREE | One selecting health and 401k plans, say |
| RAGPICKER | One selecting newspapers from bins perhaps (9) |
| ERNIE | Name of the electronic machine selecting the winning numbers of premium bonds (5) |
| TAU | Team up, selecting the odd foreign character |
| ADDTOQUEUE | Spotify option for selecting the next song |
| DISCJOCKEY | One selecting tracks for policeman, lawyer and rider (4-6) |
| ERA | Statistic sometimes considered when selecting the Cy Young Award winner: Abbr. |
| PANPIPE | Give it a blow when selecting the 'pine' app (7) |
| THEFIRSTOFAPRIL | A time for selecting the butt of jokes (3,5,2,5) |
| CASTINGCALL | Process for selecting theatrical performers, and a hint to the first word of the answers to starred |
