| SCREAMER | Sensational headline; circus march; powerful or fast ball in sport; or, an exclamation mark (8) |
| TACKLE | Word for apparatus, fishing gear, rigging etc from which a term for an equestrian kit derives; a pulley; a block, deflection, play or take of a ball in sport; or, Jilly Cooper's latest title (6) |
| CRICKET | Summer sport, or an insect (7) |
| YEET | Throw, in slang, or an exclamation made when throwing |
| YAHOO | Online search engine, or an exclamation |
| MOTOCROSS | Very little time to pass the ball in sport |
| JEOPARDY | Game show with an exclamation mark in its title (8) |
| GAMEPLAN | A strategy worked out in advance, often in sport or business (4,4) |
| STRENGTH | Physical or mental power tested in sports; or, one of the Tarot cards (8) |
| ATHLETES | People trained to compete in sports or exercises involving physical strength, speed or endurance (8) |
| SPINMOVE | Revolutionary maneuver in sports or break dancing? |
| MILITATE | Be a powerful or conclusive factor (aga'mst) (8) |
| SLUGGISH | Slow like a snail, or fast like a bullet? (8) |
| DEVON | County whose seaside village Westward Ho! is the only place in the UK to contain an exclamation mark or "shriek" in its name (5) |
| WESTWARDHO | Charles Kingsley novel or the only British place-name ending with an exclamation mark (8,2) |
| PLING | Computing/internet slang for the "bang", "screamer" or "shriek" ordinarily called an exclamation mark (5) |
| MAMMAIA | 2001 Broadway hit with an exclamation mark in its name |
| HELP | Beatles song with an exclamation mark in its title |
| BREAKAWAY | A secession/escape; a stampede; an attacking sprint to the goal in sport; or, a group of cyclists ahead of, or accelerating away from, a peloton (9) |
| SITTER | An artist's model; a broody hen on her clutch of eggs; a childminder; a church seat; an easy catch/shot in sport; or, a seance participant (6) |
