Possible Clues:

• Third-to-last
• Mixed team line up at net for quarter final, perhaps
• Nearing the end
• Dish me up Latinate ten? Such is X!
• New PA met lieutenant, with two more to follow
• Neaten up metal — it needs recasting, like this across clue
• Deviously manipulate tenet, such as eighth of ten commandments?
• I, Paul, met Annette as arranged, just before the last couple
• A tenement lit-up, a shambles two from the end of the row
• In the running, with two to go?