Possible Clues:

• Excel with soldiers in the open air
• Beat offer after vacation alfresco
• Better alternative - in the park perhaps
• Cross-country’s such sport: better when it ends in gold!
• Sporty exit?
• Open air
• Not in power, party men will be not in the house
• Old-fashioned crucifix lifted in the open air
• Perform better than form, essentially, away from house
• Category of grills