| POISONPILL | Threatened takeover bid, it is not likely to be a cure (6,4) |
| BADDEBT | It is not likely to be repaid from poor society girl before time (3,4) |
| SCARCITYVALUE | Something that has it is not likely for others to have it (8,5) |
| BARCELONA | This Spanish city considered a 2022 bid; it had hosted the 1992 Summer Games |
| SARAJEVO | This Bosnian capital considered a 2022 bid; it hosted the 1984 Winter Games while part of Yugoslavia |
| SANTIAGO | South American capital that considered a 2022 bid; it has the mountains but lacked the ice-sports facilities |
| STAYATHOME | Sort of person who is not likely to be found out (4-2-4) |
| ONTHECARDS | Likely to be a short dance arrangement (2,3,5) |
| STABLEMATE | Fellow not likely to be disturbed by final defeat |
| EXTROVERTS | They are not likely to be retiring (10) |
| JOLLYROGER | Party received standard warning of potential takeover bid? |
| NITPICKERS | Critics not likely to be satisfied |
| UNDERGRADUATE | Such a student is not likely to be given the third degree! (13) |
| COUPSDETAT | Revised cost update needed for takeover bids (5,5) |
| ECSTATIC | Turns up, church is not likely to be moved by seventh heaven? (8) |
| PANACEA | Father wielding a cane he reckons to be a cure for everything (7) |
| REMEDIAL | Dire meal laid out is meant to be a cure (8) |
| UNDERACHIEVER | A foreign revolutionary raised by one getting things done is not likely to reach potential (13) |
| INTHEWAY | Whitney A. Rock is not likely to move (2,3,3) |
| OUTSIDER | Not in with eleven players? Right, he is not likely to win (8) |
