| ARRIVALS | They reach a right with competitors |
| ALIENATE | Cut off a right with a note (8) |
| PERTINENT | They stretch out, they extend, they reach |
| HOUSEARREST | Lodge a right with others which means they can't leave home (5,6) |
| AEROBICS | Exercise a right with internal energy, only with pen and words finally (8) |
| ARBITER | Umpire has a right with dangerous dog (7) |
| ALPS | They reach great heights and make a bit of a splash (4) |
| FIELDFARE | Singer appears to get on with competitors, at first |
| FIELD | Deal with competitors in race (5) |
| STAYTHEPACE | Keep up with competitors (4,3,4) |
| ARRIVAL | A bishop merged with competitor for Advent |
| RIVAL | Royal, 4, on a lake with competitor (5) |
| PETERPRINCIPLE | Idea that people are promoted until they reach the level at which they are no longer competent |
| BURYTHEHATCHET | Floundering, but they reach almost the end row |
| SEVEN | Scorpions moult about ___ times before they reach adult size |
| MASSMEDIA | They reach very large audiences |
| DUELS | Fights expected when they reach Laois |
| ENTRANT | Gent rants when Gilbert & Sullivan leave with competitor (7) |
| PLAYER | Parley arranged with competitor (6) |
| ALLUVIAL | _ fan, an accumulation of silt, sand, gravel and boulders deposited by fast-flowing mountain rivers when they reach flatter land (8) |
