| ELIS | Participants in the annual Safety Dance |
| JOST | Participant in the annual "S.N.L." Christmas joke swap |
| BAMA | Participant in the annual Iron Bowl football game, to fans |
| MOT | Annual safety test for a vehicle (3) |
| TINSOLDIER | One of the participants in the fight in the nursery |
| 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) |
| ERAS | Participants in the Cesarewitch reviewed in The Times (4) |
| IFWE | "We can dance ___ want to" ("The Safety Dance" line) |
| HATS | Men Without ___ (group with the 1982 hit "The Safety Dance") |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| EXACTING | What the training was for the real-life participants in The Dam Busters (8) |
| PEPSI | One of the participants in the "cola wars" |
| SOAM | "The night is young and ___ I" ("Safety Dance" line) |
| MEN | ___ Without Hats ("The Safety Dance" band) |
| BRITAIN | Last year, Hunstanton won a gold award in the annual RHS ... in Bloom awards, Coastal category (7) |
| SLED | Vehicle in the annual Iditarod race |
| WINNINGSTREAK | Victory in the annual nudist club 1K? |
| EAST | One side in the annual Shrine Game |
