| Gridiron kick | 13 |
| Fourth-down play, often | 23 |
| Pole down the Thames | 20 |
| Kick with a hang time | 21 |
| Kick with a "hang time" | 33 |
| It's a kick | 15 |
| Gridiron option on fourth down | 30 |
| Gridiron maneuver | 17 |
| Do the smart thing on fourth-and-long | 37 |
| Bears' strategy | 19 |
| World Cup ploy | 14 |
| Usual fourth-down play | 22 |
| Usual fourth down play | 22 |
| Turn over the pigskin, in a way | 31 |
| Special teams play | 18 |
| Some do this rather than go for it | 34 |
| Small Thames boat | 17 |
| Skerry | 6 |
| Ray Guy specialty | 17 |
| Pre-euro Irish coin | 19 |
| Pole-propelled boat | 19 |
| Pole a boat | 11 |
| Pigskin ploy | 12 |
| Pass the buck, informally | 25 |
| Pass a problem on | 17 |
| One way to transfer the pigskin | 31 |
| Many a fourth-and-long call | 27 |
| Last resort? | 12 |
| It precedes a return | 20 |
| Indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle | 42 |
| Indentation at bottom of a wine bottle | 38 |
| Give up the ball | 16 |
| Give up on fourth down | 22 |
| Giant kick | 10 |
| Fourth-down move | 16 |
| Fourth-down kick | 16 |
| Fourth-down decision, sometimes | 31 |
| Fourth-down decision | 20 |
| Fourth-down choice | 18 |
| Fourth-down call | 16 |
| Fourth and long strategy | 24 |
| Football option | 15 |
| Football move | 13 |
| Equivocate, so to speak | 23 |
| Emulate Ray Guy | 15 |
| Do the smart thing on fourth and fifteen | 40 |
| Do the best you can | 19 |
| Boot the pigskin | 16 |
| Admit defeat, in a way | 22 |
| Abandon one's efforts, informally | 37 |
| NFL specialist | 14 |
| Gridiron specialist | 19 |
| Fourth-down specialist | 22 |
| Kicking specialist | 18 |
| He gets a kick out of football | 30 |
| Fourth-down player, often | 25 |
| Fourth down figure | 18 |
| Boat propeller, of a sort | 25 |
| Small and weak | 14 |
| Runtish | 7 |
| Hardly Herculean | 16 |
| Unimposing | 10 |
| Underweight | 11 |
| Stunted | 7 |
| Like a runt | 11 |
| Hardly muscular | 15 |
| Hardly he-man material | 22 |
| Totally unlike a muscleman | 26 |
| Shrimpish | 9 |
| Like the runt of the litter | 27 |
| Like runts | 10 |
| Like a weakling's muscles | 29 |
| Inferior in size | 16 |
| Far from adequate | 17 |
| Certainly not brawny | 20 |
| Built like Don Knotts | 21 |
| Brawnless | 9 |
| Litter member | 13 |
| Kind of tent | 12 |
| Baby seal | 9 |
| Young'un | 12 |
| Kennel youngster | 16 |
| Baby boxer | 10 |
| Young dog | 9 |
| Young boxer | 11 |
| Lightweight boxer? | 18 |
| Baby barker | 11 |
| Little litter critter | 21 |
| Little Labrador | 15 |
| Young pooch | 11 |
| Tent type | 9 |
| Part of a litter | 16 |
| Minor crying wolf? | 18 |
| Litter unit | 11 |
| Young wolf | 10 |
| Young otter | 11 |
| Young boxer? | 12 |
| White-furred seal, perhaps | 26 |
| Spot early on? | 14 |
| Small pointer | 13 |