| WITNESSBOX | View fight that's synonymous with a lot of swearing, evidentially (7,3) |
| PER | Pay-___-view fight |
| FREEFORALL | Join a fight that's open to everyone (4-3-3) |
| RASP | A grating sound; a scrape of a door; a coarse file; a mollusc's tongue; or, a berry synonymous with a boo (4) |
| ROD | Whether an angler's fishing-pole, a cane for a stroll or a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer of blue-eyed soul, it is a word or name synonymous with a stick for punishment or control (3) |
| CORNMEAL | Complex network broadcasting feed that's synonymous with Porridge (8) |
| BLING | Bulgarian lacks aura that's synonymous with ostentatious jewellery (5) |
| EKETAHUNA | Place in the Manawatu-Whanganui region that's synonymous with remote rural settlements (9) |
| DREAMON | Two-word phrase that's synonymous with its second word backwards |
| WHITEWASH | Word for a glass of sherry after claret, port or other wine; wall paint synonymous with a cover-up, deception or glossing over; or, a total defeat or thrash in a game or match (9) |
| ROGET | Name that's synonymous with synonyms |
| YEA | Vote that's synonymous with aye |
| CIRCLE | A plane figure/shape synonymous with a group or ring of people; or, a lap, orbit, revolution or whirl (6) |
| BOLT | A thunderclap, such as one in a clear blue sky, thus synonymous with a shock or surprise, from out of nowhere (4) |
| GROUSE | Game bird with a distinctive low rattling grumbling call, thus synonymous with a complaint, gripe or a moan (6) |
| CASINO | Most of the investigation in Oxford is synonymous with a number of risks (6) |
| ETON | It is synonymous with a crop, a jacket and a wall game |
| CONTENDER | Hes taking on in a fight thats to do with money! (9) |
| TOLPUDDLE | --- Martyrs, group of farm workers convicted of swearing a secret oath in 1834 to protect their income (9) |
| TITIAN | Allegedly living until he was 103, a 16th-century painter synonymous with a shade of striking red (6) |