| THEBOXER | Simon & Garfunkel song about "a fighter" who "carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down" |
| IAMAROCK | Simon & Garfunkel song about emotional detachment |
| MONKEYMAN | Action film in which Dev Patel plays a fighter who wears a simian mask (April, 2024) |
| BOXERBRIEFS | Hybrid underclothing options whose first word is a fighter who wears padded gloves: 2 wds. (Theme answer: A dog breed is followed by written documents) |
| MEMENTOES | The reminders to myself, stone me, worked! (9) |
| THEMOUNTAINROAD | Stewart film about a fighter pilot |
| MAFIA | Retrograde intent about a fighter in criminal organisation (5) |
| ALLINWRESTLER | Not necessarily a fighter who's completely exhausted (3-2,8) |
| ENSIGN | It is the mark of the soldier who carries the colours (6) |
| SPAR | Box in training using special gloves that are worn to minimize the power of the punches (4) |
| ADAIR | Red, U.S. fire-fighter who attended the fires in Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War (5) |
| CHARON | Ferryman who carries the souls of the dead to Hades (6) |
| THURIFER | Acolyte in a Christian church who carries the censer (incense container) at religious ceremonies (8) |
| AESOP | Who told "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs" |
| AESOPSFABLES | Collection of stories with morals, including The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs |
| MITTEN | Glove that encases the thumb separately from the fingers (6) |
| GREAT | And 4 Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel that laid the transatlantic telegraph cable from 1865 (5,7) |
| MITTENS | Gloves that cover the thumb separately and the other four fingers together (7) |
| ALI | Fighter who boasted, 'I should be a postage stamp; that's the only way I'll ever get licked' |
| ATLAS | A returning sailor who carries the world on his shoulders (5) |
