| JOST | Participant in the annual "S.N.L." Christmas joke swap |
| BAMA | Participant in the annual Iron Bowl football game, to fans |
| CRACKER | Fine thing as a repository of Christmas jokes? (7) |
| ELIS | Participants in the annual Safety Dance |
| SNL | Show with a Joke Swap segment, in brief |
| TRIPLECROWN | In rugby union, a victory by Scotland, England, Wales or Ireland in all three games against the others in the annual Six Nations Championship (6,5) |
| SKIFF | Boat rowed up the Thames by "uppers" in the annual ceremony of counting the Queen's swans (5) |
| BENNEVIS | In the annual 14km race up and down this mountain, the record time is Kenny Stuart’s 1:25:34 in 1984 |
| SWAN | Depicted by cello and piano in Camille Saint-Saens' Le Cygne, bird such as that counted in the annual census by the Vintners' and Dyers' livery companies (4) |
| BRITAIN | Last year, Hunstanton won a gold award in the annual RHS ... in Bloom awards, Coastal category (7) |
| TINSOLDIER | One of the participants in the fight in the nursery |
| SLED | Vehicle in the annual Iditarod race |
| WINNINGSTREAK | Victory in the annual nudist club 1K? |
| MOIST | In the annual car test, is found to be damp (5) |
| FEST | Suffix with Oktober in the annual celebration of beer word craze |
| EAST | One side in the annual Shrine Game |
| WYATTEARP | Participant in the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, who died in 1929 aged 80 (5,4) |
| MADHATTER | Participant in the 16 in 3,8 (3,6) |
| OLDMEDALLIST | Successful participant in the Senior's Games? |
| GNU | Participant in the Serengeti's "great migration" |