| CROWSFOOT | Winger's distance from the line (5,4) |
| OFFTHEPEG | Ready to wear clothes from the line? (3,3,3) |
| OUTERMOST | At the greatest distance from the center |
| FROSTLINE | In our solar system, for example, it's the distance from the Sun where grains of ice can form, which is an important stepping stone for forming planets (5,4) |
| LATITUDES | A bird you find finally in the French region a certain distance from the equator (9) |
| LIGHTYEAR | Long distance from the rig, lay wrecked (5-4) |
| ABSCISSAS | Distances from the y-axis on a graph |
| SNAP | Start of play in American football, when the centre passes the ball back from the line of scrimmage |
| BENCH | Remove from the line-up, in baseball |
| ANCESTRY | Any crestfallen types from the line ahead of us (8) |
| UNPEG | Take down from the line (5) |
| TAILBACK | Football player farthest from the line of scrimmage |
| AWOL | Missing from the line of duty: Abbr. |
| NILE | Blue or White, it's withdrawn from the line (4) |
| ADLIB | Stray from the lines on the boards |
| COWCATCHER | One rustles, perhaps, as it clears obstructions from the line (10) |
| PIRATES | Raiders? From the line-up, I rate Scotland's Captain Kidd and his crew (7) |
| PALMISTS | Those who tell fortunes from the lines on the hand (8) |
| ASTRONOMICALUNIT | Distance equal to the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun (12,4) |
| AZIMUTH | The angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the foot of the vertical circle through a heavenly body. In space, it describes the horizontal direction of a celestial body. |
