| LIONS | Only NFC team to never have played a Super Bowl |
| ACTED | To have played a part, is to have done what (5) |
| RENEGE | Play a club when you should have played a heart |
| FIGURED | Reckoned to have played a part |
| DUNCAN | George, the last Major winner to have played a round in 80s during his tournament (6) |
| MARINERS | Only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series |
| RIHANNA | "There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer." She won a Gra |
| MARINER | Member of the only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series |
| DETROITLIONS | NFC North team that has never reached the Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
| EATALONE | What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller |
| DEIONSANDERS | Only athlete to have played in both the World Series and the Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
| INORGANIC | Doesn't come natural to never leave a carbon footprint? (9) |
| PETERPAN | Safe vessel for voyager to Never Never Land |
| HARRIERS | Kidderminster, only Worcestershire club to have played in the Football League (8) |
| GAMETOTHELAST | Boxing count for that man? To go the distance one needs to never give up! (4,2,3,4) |
| ELEPHANT | Ridden across the Alps into battle by Hannibal and said to never forget, animal known collectively as a memory (8) |
| LARAM | NFC participant in Super Bowl LIII |
| LARAMS | NFC representative in Super Bowl LIII |
| JUDIDENCH | 82-year-old star of "Victoria & Abdul" who vows to never quit working |
| VENEER | It's superficial to never travel around Orient (6) |
