Answer: OUTSIDECHANCE
The answer OUTSIDECHANCE has 10 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Long shot
- Away team risk a long shot
- *Slight likelihood
- Hundred-to-one odds, say
- What a long shot has, and, literally, what 20-, 27- and 45-Across each has
- Remote possibility ... or a hint to 20-, 29- and 44-Across
- Unlikely opportunity given to prisoner released on parole
- Dismissed team before tea? Former opener's removed smallest likelihood
- It might just happen
- Fortune put on striking team, one at long odds