| PENNYBLACK | Understanding one's dropped chess player, the first to get licked |
| START | Top player the first to begin |
| ICELOLLIES | Lie fabricated about principal in Casterbridge, Hardy's answer to get licked (3,7) |
| POSTAGESTAMP | One to get licked before becoming enveloped! (7-5) |
| SEEING | Understanding one's having an affair with (6) |
| IDEALIST | One understanding one's time as a dreamer |
| LLOYD | see 1dn, American soccer player, the first ever to score three goals in a FIFA Women's World Cup final |
| ANDREAGASSI | American former tennis player; the first man to achieve a Career Golden Slam (5,6) |
| CARLI | and 50dn, American soccer player, the first ever to score three goals in a FIFA Women's World Cup final |
| ZHAOXINTONG | Chinese snooker player; the first Asian World Snooker Champion (4,7) |
| TWIT | The fool's the first to get the humour (4) |
| FADE | Golf shot that causes the ball to deviate to the right (or, for a left-handed player, the left) (4) |
| KNEES | Jarno Saarinen was one of the first to get these onto the Tarmac. (5) |
| NEEDLED | Want to have been the first to get annoyed (7) |
| ORR | Only to Art win Ross player the and Norris trophies in the same season |
| MISCASTS | Gives player the wrong job to address tackling all the players (8) |
| POSTAGESTAMPS | Team's stopgaps being trained ___ they don't get licked the way they used to be (7,6) |
| ENACT | Stick around, tempted from the first to get into law |
| TIDALWAVE | Overwhelming phenomenon, being the first to get laid off by greeting (5,4) |
| EARLIEST | Was the first to get there, but was far too soon (8) |
