| MAKEHAY | Spooner's swimmer might seize the chance (4,3) |
| TAKETIMEBYTHEFORELOCK | Seize the chance to linger canal-side? Without warning of course |
| SNAPUP | Seize the chance to make a break higher (4,2) |
| CARPEDIEM | Long to have maiden on rug shortly? Seize the chance! (5,4) |
| REVVING | Queen Victoria, given the chance of gunning the throttle (7) |
| OUTSIDE | Like the chance of the dismissed team? (7) |
| MCAVOY | Glasgow star of The Last King of Scotland might seize broadcast cameos around five with happy ending (5,6) |
| DOITALL | "Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line; If we had the chance to ... again; Tell me, would we, could we," sang Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were (2,2,3) |
| DEA | Group that might seize a heroin shipment: Abbr. |
| NARC | One might seize dope |
| TAKETHEPLUNGE | What the swimmers might do to join The Union (4,3,6) |
| FIN | A swimmer might rightly be scared to see one |
| ATASTROKE | How a swimmer might excel in one go? (2,1,6) |
| CRAWL | Act in a servile manner? Swimmer might do this |
| ARMBANDS | A learner swimmer might use these (8) |
| MADEHAY | Grabbed the chance |
| BELTAND | Double the chance of securing drainpipes? (4,3,6) |
| DOIDARE | "Is it worth the chance?" |
| GAINSAY | Win the chance to speak or deny something (7) |
| ALLOWED | Given the chance, we all do wrong |
