| ZEROSUMGAME | Scenario in which one can only get ahead at the expense of another |
| CENTREFORWARD | Might a striker get ahead at the midpoint? (6-7) |
| EPEE | Sport in which one can only score with a point |
| INROAD | Advance made at the expense of another |
| PARASITIC | Living at the expense of another (9) |
| SCOREPOINTSOFFSOMEONE | Advance at the expense of another |
| FRAMEUP | Narrowly ahead at the snooker table in a staged event? |
| HEADING | Going ahead at the front, in good order (7) |
| USECASE | Potential scenario in which a piece of software might be helpful |
| BIGCRUNCH | Not the sound of biting into a crisp apple or crackling-covered joint, but a theoretical end-of-universe scenario in which expansion reverses and all matter collapses into a single point (3,6) |
| STYMIE | Former scenario in golf of a ball blocking the path of another ball to the hole (6) |
| THEREUPON | The engineers, on horseback, get ahead at once (9) |
| SPARTA | City-state of ancient Greece, which focused on war and diplomacy at the expense of arts and philosophy (6) |
| EQUIP | "Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may ___ themselves at the expense of joy": E.M. Forster (5) |
| CUTCORNERS | Take the easiest way at the expense of high standards |
| SPONGE | One who lives at the expense of others (6) |
| JUNKET | Trip taken by a politician at the expense of the government |
| TOOGOODTOBETRUE | Mind-boggling excess of virtuosity at the expense of faithfulness? (3,4,2,2,4) |
| ONTHEHOUSE | Given free, at the expense of the establishment (2,3,5) |
| MONACO | Tiny principality in which one can visit the casino at Monte Carlo (6) |
