| SHINPAD | Protection against a kick |
| FENCE | Protection against a crooked dealer (5) |
| VACCINE | Protection against a cold reportedly identified (7) |
| LEVEE | Protection against a flood |
| MITT | Protection against a hot baking tray |
| SEAWALL | Protection against a hurricane |
| WARRANTY | protection against a lemon |
| SERVIETTE | Protection against a spill or struggle in rough street |
| WADERS | Pile of cash the queen's protection against a rainy day? |
| IMMUNISED | Having had an injection for protection against a specific disease (9) |
| FOOTER | A walker; a Scots word for a fiddle or potter about; an informal name for soccer; a kick of the ball in said game; or, type/text at the bottom of a page, in contrast to the header, at the top (6) |
| BOOT | With "to", a phrase meaning "as well, in addition"; a buskin, wellington or other shoe that covers part of the leg; a kick; or, a vehicle's "trunk" (4) |
| SCOOT | A dash, scud, scuttle, slip or squirt, or a zip on a kick-powered ride, but all in all, it is a quick and sudden glide (5) |
| PENALTY | In association football a ... kick is a direct free kick taken 12 yards from the goal (7) |
| CINNAMON | A ___ stick gives cider a kick (and makes a handy stirrer, too) |
| HALFWAY | Teams usually opt for a scrum on - - - if the opposition kick the ball straight out at a kick-off (7) |
| SHOT | A kick in a ball game (4) |
| PUNT | Take a kick in a flat-bottomed boat |
| REFLEXTEST | What a doctor gets a kick out of? |
| HACK | A kick from a horse |