| CAPRICORN | Sign top player at last - current seed |
| MENAHEMPRESSLER | Violinist: fellows call for attention and crowd the French player at last (7,8) |
| REPRESENTATION | Share includes the last current portrayal (14) |
| PLUSH | Add sign: top house is luxurious (5) |
| LIAISON | Co-operation - one of the signs top class is involved |
| PROTEST | Complaint by top player at important match (7) |
| STARCH | Stiffness of manner for top player at church |
| APOGEAN | Gone off with a top player at the peak (7) |
| CEDE | Give up like a top player at Wimbledon, say (4) |
| STAR | Top player, at some stage, might have no time to begin (4) |
| SENTIMENT | Transferred a group of players, at last, with some emotion (9) |
| SPIDERS | Rests players at last after pride's shattered (7) |
| PREFERMENT | Choose some players, at last, to gain promotion (10) |
| SEEDED | Withdrew, caught out, like top players at Wimbledon (6) |
| SEEDS | The top players at Wimbledon, e.g. (5) |
| SEED | One of the sixteen top players at Wimbledon, for example? |
| APARTMENT | A role for some players, at last, getting a place to live (9) |
| STARGAZING | Looking intently at the leading player, at night, perhaps (10) |
| GOALKEEPER | Player at Indian resort's an outcast having contracted leukemia at heart (10) |
| RUCKS | Marcos Kremer hit 46 - - - against England at RWC 2023 - the most by any player at the tournament (5) |
